Study on Traditional Chinese Medical (TCM) Treatment Rules of Scarlet Fever Based on Data Mining of TCM Classics

Objective; To analyze the discrimination and treatment of acute larynx ulcer in TCM classics. Methods: Using the mathematical statistics and data mining methods to sort and analyze information of the scarlet fever in TCM classics, such as etiology, disease-bit, treatment and formulas. Results: The causes of the scarlet fever involved warms up when poison, weakened body resistance and pidemic pathogen with li gas, and its site of cerebral apoplexy located in throat, skin and stomach. TCM syndrome of the scarlet fever included pathogenic factors invade lung and surface, toxic obstructing qi aspect, pathogenic factors invade the ying blood and pathogenic factors invade liver and kidney. For the treatment of the scarlet fever, the main method is clearing heat and detoxification, and external treatment is emphasized, such as external application, laryngeal blowing and removing corruption. Niuhuang (Bovis Calculus)-Zhenzhu (Margarita), Bingpian (Borneolum Syntheticum)-Daqingye (Isatidis Folium), Niuxi (Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix)-Tuniuxigen (Achyranthes aspera), Bingpian (Borneolum Syntheticum)-Niuhuang (Bovis Calculus), Bingpian (Borneolum Syntheticum)-Xionghuang (Realgar), Bingpian (Borneolum Syntheticum)-Shexiang (Moschus) combination has the characteristics of scarlet fever treatment. Conclusion: By summarizing and excavating the rules of syndrome differentiation and treatment of scarlet fever, it can provide a reference for the treatment of modern acute respiratory infectious diseases.