title: [Study on pharmacologic action characteristics of traditional Chinese medicines distributed along liver meridian based on medicinal properties combinations].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To establish a characterization system of traditional Chinese medicinal properties in line with modern scientific cognition regularity, in order to reveal properties of traditional Chinese medicines distributed along liver meridian and relations of effects of medicinal properties.
  
  
  METHODS
  By collecting data about traditional Chinese medicinal properties recorded in the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China (2005 Edition), literature and data about pharmacological effects of traditional Chinese medicines recorded in the Chinese Materia Medica, by using the method of association rules, the authors dug pharmacological effect rules corresponds to relevant medicinal property combinations, with the medicinal property combination of traditional Chinese medicines distributed along liver meridian as the target.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It was found that either obvious different pharmacological effects or identical pharmacological characteristics existed in traditional Chinese medicines distributed along liver meridian.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With the aim to explore the correlations between traditional Chinese medicine medicinal properties and pharmacological effects, the authors linked the traditional Chinese medicine theory with modern research achievements, in order to provide the ideas and methods for interpreting mechanisms of medicinal properties.
authors.forename: Hong-Ling
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yan-Jiang
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Qiao
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects*; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy*; D016740:Meridians
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal