Studying herb-herb interaction for insomnia through the theory of complementarities

Josiah Poon, Simon Poon, Dawei Yin, Kelvin Chan, Clement Loy, Xuezhong Zhou, Runshun Zhang, Baoyan Liu, Paul Kwan, Daniel Sze, Junbin Gao

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[The efficacy of a TCM medication derives from the herb-herb interaction in a formula. Although there are standard formulae, a practitioner will only pick a subset of formulas as templates and personalize them for the patients. It is not easy to determine the true interacting herbs to contribute to the effectiveness of a treatment. Association rule mining is an approach to find the co-occurrence of some items, however, it is not goal-oriented, and the generated results are very sensitive to the given parameters, i.e. support count. The aim of this paper is to introduce a new framework to systematically generate a set of combinations of interacting herbs that leads to good outcome. This algorithm was tested with a dataset of treatment of insomnia to understand the effectiveness of combination of herbs. Interesting and insightful results were noted and discussed.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops, BIBMW 2010, 18-21 December 2010, Hong, Kong
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages722-726
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Print)9781424483020
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    EventIEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops -
    Duration: 18 Dec 2010 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops
    Period18/12/10 → …

    Keywords

    • complementarities
    • herbs
    • insomnia
    • interactions
    • super-modular function

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