LIU Chenyuan,YAO Yuan,WANG Xuezhen,et al.Textual Research and Standardization of Epilepsy Disease Names[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2022,63(19):1888-1893.
LIU Chenyuan,YAO Yuan,WANG Xuezhen,et al.Textual Research and Standardization of Epilepsy Disease Names[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2022,63(19):1888-1893.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2022.19.016.
Textual Research and Standardization of Epilepsy Disease Names
The medical record of epilepsy has a long history in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), but the disease terms are varied in different times, bringing the problems such as single disease with multiple names and chaotic disease hierarchy. The ancient books and documents were systematically reviewed to obtain disease names of epilepsy using terminology, ontology and other methods, and finally 650 related ancient TCM books were obtained, and 32 disease names of epilepsy were extracted. Categorized into different historical times, the 32 diseases names were analyzed from three aspects including symptom characteristics, etiology and disease mechanism, and nature and location of disease. Following the standards and principles such as keeping in accordance with ancient books, scientific categorization, clear definitions and boundaries, as well as inheritance, practicality, advancement, specificity, accuracy, acceptance, and stability, the disease names were standardized into 14 preferred disease names, 5 synonymous disease names and 14 subordinate disease names.