[Basic rules and characteristics of acupoint application therapy based upon data mining].

Objective: To analyze the basic characteristics of effects of acupoint application therapy in order to guide clinical decision better.

Methods: A database on acupoint application therapy was established first by collection, sorting, screening, recording, collation, data extraction, and statistical analyses of the related literature published in recent 60 years, and using modern computer system. Then, its predominant indications and application rules in clinical practice were analyzed using data mining techniques.

[Acupoint catgut-embedding therapy: superiorities and principles of application].

Objective: To analyze the superiorities of acupoint catgut-embedding therapy, discuss its law of clinical application and provide scientific decision-making for clinical treatment.

Methods: Literatures on acupoint catgut-embedding therapy in the recent 40 years were selected, input, examined and verified, picked up and analyzed by establishing database with the modern computer technology.

Results: (1) One thousand and seventy-five literatures were input.

[Research on characteristics of different clinical conditions treated by red-hot acupuncture needle based on data mining needle].

Objective: To analyze the regularities and characters of clinical application of red-hot needle therapy in ancient and modern literature of Chinese medicine by using data mining techniques, so as to provide a reference for study on the specificity of efficacy of red-hot needle therapy.

Methods: Sample data was collected from some medical books, medical cases, reports of modern journals for calculating frequent item sets by using methods of association rules of data mining. Then, the collected data was extracted, sorted out, and summed up by using our newly developed literature database platform of red-hot needle therapy in order to find out the most suitable indications of this therapy in clinical practice.