Objective: To analyze regularities of medicinal diet recipes in Chinese Medicinal Diet Dictionary for phlegm-dampness constitution based on Traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance Support System (TCMISS) (V2.5)

in order to provide references for diet therapy for adjusting phlegm-dampness constitution. Method: TCMISS was used to build a database of medicinal diet recipes for adjusting phlegm-dampness constitution. The software integration data mining method was used to analyze the regularities of prescriptions. Result: By analyzing frequencies of 1 393 medicated diet recipes

we found 367 kinds of Chinese materia medica

523 foods and 68 condiments. The three most commonly used medicines were Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens

Jujubae Fructus and Dioscoreae Rhizoma. And the three most commonly used foods weresticky rice

egg and carp. At the same time

35 common combinations were achieved through association rules

and 16 new prescriptions were mined based on complex networks entropy method. Conclusion: This study is the first time to analyze the regularities of medicinal diet recipes composed of medicines and foods through TCMISS

and a pioneering attempt compared with the previous analysis on prescriptions consisting of only traditional Chinese medicines.