Traditional - chinese medicine prescriptions are our country ' s precious medicine mine whose complexity and huge amount of information suit well the application of data mining . the study is aimed at discovering the hidden pharmaceutical principles in the traditional - chinese medicine prescriptions 中药方剂是我国独有的医学宝库,由于长期缺乏系统的科学的整理,大量的方剂处于分散流失状态,亟待我们用科学的手段加以整理和分析。