Exploratory Compatibility Regularity of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Osteoarthritis Treatment: A Data Mining and Random Walk-Based Identification

Table 1

Application of Chinese herbal medicine in OA treatment.

Category	Herb	Number	Nature and taste	Meridian tropism
Invigorating spleen for eliminating dampness	Poria	10376	Sweet, flat, light	Spleen, kidney
	Radix Glycyrrhizae	9789	Gump, flat	Heart, lung, stomach, spleen
	Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae	9625	Pungent, warm, bitter	Spleen
	Semen Coicis	9044	Sweet, light	Spleen, stomach
	Rhizoma Dioscoreae Oppositae	8590	Sweet, flat	Spleen, lung, kidney
Removing meridian obstruction by promoting blood circulation	Flos Carthami	10100	Pungent, warm	Heart, liver
	Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae	9769	Bitter, slightly cold	Heart, liver
	Semen Persicae	8593	Bitter, flat, sweet	Heart, liver
	Caulis Spatholobi	6622	Bitter, sweet, warm	Liver, kidney
	Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae	4284	Bitter, sweet, sour, flat	Liver, kidney
Dispelling wind and eliminating dampness	Radix et Rhizoma Clematidis Chinensis	7743	Pungent, salt, warm	Bladder
	Herba Siegesbeckiae	5511	Bitter, bitter, slightly cold	Liver, kidney
	Radix Angelicae Biserratae	4395	Pungent, bitter, warm	Kidney, bladder
	Herba Gaultheriae Grenulatae	4127	Sweet, pungent	Lung, liver
	Herba Lycopodii Japonici	3606	Bitter, pungent, warm	Liver, spleen, kidney
Eliminating heat and toxic materials	Herba Taraxaci Mongolici	7288	Bitter, slightly cold, sweet	Liver, stomach
	Herba Hedyotis	4661	Bitter, slightly cold, sweet	Stomach, larger intestine
	Plantago asiatica L.	3034	Sweet, slightly cold	Liver, kidney, lung
	Cortex Phellodendri Amurensis	2832	Bitter	Kidney, bladder
	Radix Scutellariae Baicalensis	2464	Bitter	Lung, gallbladder, spleen