| AD | Atopic dermatitis |
| Th | T helper |
| TCM | Traditional Chinese Medicine |
| PHF | pentaherbs formula |
| CM | Cortex Moutan |
| CP | Cortex Phellodendri |
| FL | Flos Lonicerae |
| HM | Herba Menthae |
| RA | Rhizoma Atractylodis |
| TCMSP | Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology Database |
| ADME | The absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion |
| OB | oral bioavailability |
| DL | drug-likeness |
| OMIM | Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man |
| PPI | protein–protein interaction |
| GO | gene ontology |
| BP | biological process |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| AP-1 | activator protein 1 |
| AKT1 | RAC-alpha serine/threonine-protein kinase |
| MAPK1 | mitogen-activated protein kinase 1 |
| MAPK3 | mitogen-activated protein kinase 3 |
| RELA | transcription factor p65 |
| IL-6 | interleukin-6 |
| MAPK8 | mitogen-activated protein kinase 8 |
| HSP90AA1 | heat shock protein 90 alpha family class A member 1 |
| EGFR | epidermal growth factor receptor |
| MAPK14 | mitogen-activated protein kinase 14 |
| ESR1 | estrogen receptor |
| STAT3 | signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 |
| VEGFA | vascular endothelial growth factor A |
| HIF | hypoxia-inducible factor |
| IgE | immunoglobulin E |
| CUHK | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| DAVID | Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery |
| STRING | Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins |
| AGE-RAGE | advanced glycation end products-receptor for advanced glycation end products |