Table 1.
The list of therapeutic action classes, subclasses, and their number of respective Chinese medicines and compounds. A total of 10,749 compounds from 46 therapeutic action subclasses were included in the analysis presented in this work.
| Chinese medicine class | Chinese medicine subclass | Chinese medicine (sub)class (Chinese names) | Abb. | NoH | NoC |
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| Exterior releasing | Wind cold dispersing | Sàn hán jiě biǎo yào (散寒解表药) |
ER-wind cold | 21 | 538 |
| Wind heat dispersing | Qīng rè jiě biǎo yào (清热解表药) |
ER-wind heat | 22 | 413 | |
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| Heat-clearing medicinal | Heat-clearing and blood cooling | Liáng xuè huó xuè yào (凉血活血药) |
HC-blood cool | 14 | 99 |
| Heat-clearing and dampness drying | Qīng rè lì shī yào (清热利湿药) |
HC-damp | 11 | 264 | |
| Deficiency | Qīng xū rè yào (清虚热药) |
HC-def | 10 | 186 | |
| Heat-clearing and detoxicating | Qīng rè jiě dú yào (清热解毒药) |
HC-detox | 54 | 1029 | |
| Heat-clearing and fire purging | Qīng rè xiè huǒ yào (清热泻火药) |
HC-fire purge | 18 | 234 | |
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| Purgative medicinal | Laxative medicinal | Rùn xià yào (润下药) |
Purg-lax | 3 | 27 |
| Offensive purgative | Gōng xià yào (攻下药) |
Purg-off | 6 | 54 | |
| Drastic (purgative) water-expelling | Jùn xià zhú shuǐ yào (峻下逐水药) |
Purg-water expel | 14 | 206 | |
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| Dampness resolving | Water draining and anti-icteric | Lì shī tuì huáng yào (利湿退黄药) |
Damp-antiicteric | 6 | 189 |
| Water draining and strangury resolving | Lì niào tōng lín yào (利尿通淋药) |
Damp-stran | 15 | 133 | |
| Water draining and swelling dispersing | Lì shuǐ xiāo zhǒng yào (利水消肿药) |
Damp-swell | 13 | 265 | |
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| Qi regulating | Lǐ qì yào (理气药) |
Qi | 36 | 699 | |
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| Digestant medicinal | Xiāo shí yào (消食药) |
Digest | 8 | 146 | |
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| Hemostatic medicinal | Astringent hemostatic | Shōu liǎn zhǐ xiě yào (收敛止血药) |
Hemo-astringent | 5 | 92 |
| Blood cooling hemostatic | Liáng xuè zhǐ xiě yào (凉血止血药) |
Hemo-blood cool | 13 | 198 | |
| Meridian warming hemostatic | Wēn jīng zhǐ xuè yào (温经止血药) |
Hemo-meridian | 2 | 146 | |
| Stasis resolving hemostatic | Huà yū zhǐ xiě yào (化瘀止血药) |
Hemo-stasis | 6 | 245 | |
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| Blood activating and stasis resolving | Blood activating analgesic | Huó xuè zhǐ tòng yào (活血止痛药) |
BASR-analgesic | 7 | 487 |
| Blood breaking mass eliminating | Pò xiě xiāo zhēng yào (破血消癥药) |
BASR-break | 9 | 177 | |
| Blood activating menstruation resolving | Huó xuè tiáo jīng yào (活血调经药) |
BASR-menstrual | 15 | 457 | |
| Blood activating trauma curing | Huó xuè liáo shāng yào (活血疗伤药) |
BASR-trauma | 12 | 261 | |
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| Cough suppressing and panting-calming | Clearing and heat phlegm resolving | Qīng huà rè tán yào (清化热痰药) |
CSPC-heat | 30 | 237 |
| Cold phlegm resolving and warming | Wēn huà hán tán yào (温化寒痰药) |
CSPC-cold | 19 | 147 | |
| Cough suppressing and panting-calming | Zhǐ ké píng chuǎn yào (止咳平喘药) |
CSPC-panting | 16 | 334 | |
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| Tranquilizing | Heat nourishing tranquilizing | Yǎng xīn ān shén yào (养心安神药) |
Tranquil-heat | 1 | 145 |
| Settling tranquilizing | Zhòng zhèn ān shén yào (重镇安神药) |
Tranquil-settle | 6 | 1 | |
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| Orifice opening | Kāi qiào yào (开窍药) |
Orifice | 7 | 68 | |
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| Liver-pacifying and wind extinguishing | Extinguishing wind to resolve convulsion | Xí fēng zhǐ jìng yào (息风止痉药) |
LPWE-convulsion | 8 | 85 |
| Liver yang calming | Píng yì gān yáng yào (平抑肝阳药) |
LPWE-liver | 7 | 22 | |
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| Tonifying and replenishing | Blood tonifying | Bǔ xiě yào (补血药) |
TR-blood | 7 | 388 |
| Qi tonifying | Bǔ qì yào (补气药) |
TR-qi | 15 | 474 | |
| Yang tonifying | Bǔ yáng yào (补阳药) |
TR-yang | 23 | 559 | |
| Yin tonifying | Bǔ yīn yào (补阴药) |
TR-yin | 17 | 259 | |
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| Astringent | Anhidrotic | Gù biǎo zhǐ hàn yào (固表止汗药) |
Ast-anhidro | 3 | 17 |
| Lung-intestine astringent | Liǎn fèi sè cháng yào (敛肺涩肠药) |
Ast-lung | 8 | 145 | |
| Securing essence, reducing urination, and checking vaginal discharge | Gù jīng suō niào zhǐ dài yào (固精缩尿止带药) |
Ast-secure | 6 | 125 | |
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| Wind-dampness dispelling | Bone (sinew) strengthening | Qū fēng shī qiáng jīn gǔ yào (祛风湿强筋骨药) |
WD-bone | 5 | 44 |
| Heat-clearing | Qū fēng shī rè yào (祛风湿热药) |
WD-heat | 8 | 175 | |
| Cold dispersing | Qū fēng hán shī yào (祛风寒湿药) |
WD-cold | 13 | 309 | |
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| Interior warming | Wēn lǐ yào (温里药) |
Warm | 13 | 457 | |
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| Worm expelling medicinal | Qū chóng yào (驱虫药) |
Worm | 9 | 93 | |
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| Emetic medicinal | Yǒng tǔ yào (涌吐药) |
Emetic | 3 | 9 | |
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| Parasite destroying, dampness eliminating, and itchiness relieving | Gōng dú shā chóng zhǐ yǎng yào (攻毒杀虫止痒药) |
Parasite | 8 | 81 | |
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| Antimalarial medicinal | Kàng nüè yào (抗疟药) |
Malarial | 4 | 30 | |
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| Total compounds | 10,749 | ||||
Abb.: abbreviation.
NoH: number of Chinese medicines.
NoC: number of compounds.