Abstract
Purpose : Nowadays excrement-related disease that repeats constipation and diarrhea is on the increase due to the change of dietary and lack of exercise, etc. We analyzed Bangyakhappyeon in order to find out the materia medica which is used for the excrement patterns. Methods : The database used in present thesisis consist of disease pattern, nature of medicinals and materia medica from Bangyakhappyeon was constructed. We analyzed the nature of medicinals of excrement patterns(or symptom) by frequency analysis and network analysis, and also searched main materia medica of excrement patterns(or symptom) by frequency analysis and rule mining. Results : We analyzed the nature of medicinals of excrement patterns(or symptom) in Bangyakhappyeon. And we researched the high frequency materia medica, high specificity materia medica and high frequent paired-drugs as main materia medica of excrement patterns(or symptom). Conclusion : This study found the information about frequency relationship between excrement patterns(or symptoms) and materia medica.