Objectives: To analyze the rules of acupoint selection and compatibility of acupuncture and moxibustion in treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) based on complex network technology and provide the reliable evidences for acupoint selection in treatment of this disease with acupuncture and moxibustion. Methods: The clinical studies on acupuncture-moxibustion treatment of inflammatory …
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Objectives: To explore the rules of acupoint selection in the treatment of neurogenic bladder (NB) with acupuncture and moxibustion by using data mining. Methods: The clinical research literatures on acupuncture treatment of NB were collected from PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, CNKI, Wanfang Database, VIP Database and China Biology Medicine from retrieved to …
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Using data mining technology, the rules of acupoint selection of acupuncture and moxibustion were explored in treatment of stroke-related pneumonia. The clinical articles of acupuncture and moxibustion in treatment of stroke-related pneumonia were retrieved from CNKI, SinoMed, Wanfang and VIP databases from their inception through to January l 2021, and …
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Objective: To analyze the acupoint selection rules of acupuncture for pseudobulbar palsy dysphagia using data mining technology. Methods: The literature of acupuncture for pseudobulbar palsy dysphagia published from January 1, 1990 to May 1, 2021 was retrieved from CNKI, SinoMed, Wanfang, VIP, and PubMed databases. Acupuncture prescription database was established. The frequency …
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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) keeps spreading globally. Chinese medicine (CM) exerts a critical role for the prevention or therapy of COVID-19 in an integrative and holistic way. However, mining and development of early, efficient, multisite binding CMs that inhibit the cytokine storm are imminent. Methods: The formulae were extracted retrospectively from …
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) plays a role in preventing and treating COVID-19 in China. Based on the manifestations and symptoms of COVID-19, our study used the data mining method to summarize related therapeutic experience left by predecessors who used TCM to treat epidemics in their eras. Initially, we collected abundant …
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Data mining technology was adopted to analyze the rules of acupoint selection in treatment of erectile dysfunction with acupuncture and moxibustion. All of the articles for acupuncture and moxibustion in treatment of erectile dysfunction were searched from the databases, i.e. Chinese national knowledge infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang database, VIP, Chinese biomedical …
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Background: Neck pain is the most common symptom of cervical spondylosis. Objective: To discuss the indications for conventional acupuncture therapy and motion style acupuncture therapy combined with conventional acupuncture therapy in neck pain patients using data mining. Method: Seventy-six participants with neck pain were recruited and randomly divided into two paralleled groups. Participants …
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The published literature of insomnia in the elderly treated with acupuncture was retrieved in CNKI, Wanfang and VIP from the date of establishment to December 31, 2019. Association rule analysis and cluster analysis were used to summarize the acupoint selection rules of insomnia in the elderly treated with acupuncture. A …
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Objective: To explore the characteristics and rule of clinical acupoint selection in treatment of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Methods: The clinical articles of acupuncture in treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were retrieved from the databases of PubMed, EMbase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, CNKI, Wanfang, VIP and SinoMed, …
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