Thai Traditional Medicine (TTM) is an integral part of Thai traditional culture, with a history which spans many centuries. As part of this tradition, a significant number of historical pharmacopoeias and herbal textbooks have been preserved but much of the content of these texts is hard to access and interpret and so this paper proposes a framework for applying knowledge management processes to TTM. The outcome of this is the design and development of a system for making personalized prescriptions of Thai herbal medicines. By extracting and capturing knowledge from the TTM text 'Pra Kampee Maha-Chotarat' (an ancient text on the subject of gynecological conditions) and through consulting with TTM experts, a system was developed to support TTM consultants when making individual prescriptions for traditional medicines. The association rule mining technique was used to obtain recommended herbal compositions and the system was evaluated by experts, who gave feedback on the design, content and usage of the system. The proposed framework and system has the potential to be extended to cover the treatment of other diseases by drawing data from other TTM texts.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
customersupport@researchsolutions.com
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.