Objective:

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The Four Medical Tantras

is a classic work of Tibetan medicine

in which drug treatment is one of the four main treatment methods

and prescriptions are the main form of clinical drug use. The study on the medication rules of

The Four Medical Tantras

has positive significance for the clinical medication research of Tibetan medicine.

Method:

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Prescriptions recorded in

Secret Medical Code

and

Follow

-

up Medical Code

from

The Four Medical Tantras

were collected

the prescription database was constructed by Visual FoxPro 9.0

combined the dual perspectives of the " fifteen categories" (skabs bco lnga) of Tibetan medical diseases and the " eighteen practices" (lag len bco brgyad) of treatment

and Gephi 0.9.2 complex network was used to analyze its medication rules.

Result:

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The Four Medical Tantras

contained 2 695 Tibetan medicine prescriptions

average number of drugs in each prescription was 6.6

prescription composed of ≤7 drugs accounted for 69.2%of the total prescription. There were 1 002 kinds of medicines involved in the total prescription

of which 156 was the nodal degrees of Chebulae Fructus

Bambusae Concretio Silicea

Carthami Flos

Piperis Longi Fructus and Zingiberis Rhizoma and so on; followed by 91 nodal degrees of butter (mar)

sugar

barley sweetener (sbang ma)

honey and brown sugar and so on

which were Tibetan medicinal and edible medicines. According to the classification of diseases in the fifteen categories

there were 495 prescriptions for traumatology (mtshon rma)

323 for fever (tsha ba)

278 for toxics and 197 for three factors diseases. According to the treatment method of eighteen practices

162 powder

77 decoction

84 laxative (bxhal) and others were used. Association rule analysis found that edge weights of Borneolum Syntheticum

Bambusae Concretio Silicea

Carthami Flos

Santali Albi Lignum and other cold medicines were 59

edge weights of pomegranate seeds

Piperis Longi Fructus

Cinnamomi Cortex

Amomi Fructus Rotundus and other warm medicines were 45.

Conclusion:

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The Four Medical Tantras

has some characteristics

including the medication rules of elliptic philosophy with cool-warm medicinal properties as the dual core

elimination-diarrhea (zhi-sbyong) as medication methods

weight of rlung-mkhris pa-bad kan as medication dialectical thinking and so on. Among them

the clinical application of butter

barley sweetener

sugar and other special delivery agents of Tibetan medicine is prominent. The prominent clinical application of special Tibetan medicines embodies the philosophy of Tibetan culture with the emphasis on overall balance. It has the multi-dimensional medication rule of " diet plus medicine

medicine plus therapy"

and has positive significance for revealing the research on medication rules of Tibetan medicine.