Traditional Chinese medicine clustering analysis based on near-infrared spectroscopy

摘要

The Chinese materia medica is classified into several categories according to the major treatment function by experience in the traditional Chinese Medicine. This classification should have material basis. As the medicines have so many ingredients, it is hard to only use the chemical methods and biochemistry methods to analyze the Chinese materia medica. Near infrared spectroscopy is a nondestructive testing method and it can provide structural information of organic molecules which are the main effective components of the Chinese materia medica. We firstly get the NIR spectrum of some Chinese medicine, and then use LSA technology to process the data and cluster them. The result is quite coincident with the Chinese traditional medicine classification.