Chinese medical herbs have pharmaceutical actions of multi direction spectrum. By combination of herbs, these actions are increased or decreased. Chinese medical prescriptions are constructed by using this mechanism.
In this paper, we discuss the action of
Asarum heterotropoides by using Pattern analysis techniques.
Eight Chinese medical prescriptions containing
Asarum heterotropoides are classified into 3 groups, and these groups correspond to traditional pharmacological categories, which are “perspiration”, “expectoration” and “pain killing”.
M-D-SCAL was found to be more adequate in this analysis than
quantification of the fourth type.
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