TCM masters miner for knowledge transfer

摘要: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a rich knowledge about human health and disease by its special way evolved along very long history. As modern is achieving much progress, arguments disputes toward TCM never ends. To avoid losing lots of precious masters, endeavors have been engaged to systematic collection those such as their growth experiences, effective practical cases sickness typical therapeutic principles methods. Various mining expected explore some useful or hidden patterns unveil mysteries system. This paper describes computerized tool, Master Miner, which applies different analytical methods collected materials living masters in China mainland show exposing essential ideas correspondence visualization aims help people understand holistic views body, facilitate tacit transfer sense-making the essence. work one kind qualitative meta-synthesis masters' knowledge.