title: Oriental medicine: a computerized study of complex recipes and their components: herbs most frequently used in traditional Japanese and Korean medicine.
abstract: The investigated plants were processed in a computer to calculate their respective frequency of utilization in the traditional medicine of Japan and Korea. Each plant was characterized by means of certain quantitative indices (frequency-, pharmacological-, therapeutic-, and cumulative indices). Out of 663 species included in 558 prescriptions, a few "elite" groups were selected which constitute a total of 92 herbs.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007723:Korea; D008518:Medicine, East Asian Traditional; D010946:Plants, Medicinal