Traditional & Complementary Medicine Research Program, Health Innovations Research Institute and World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine, Discipline of Chinese Medicine, School of Health Sciences, College of Science Engineering & Health, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
J Altern Complement Med. 2012 Dec;18(12):1101-7. doi: 10.1089/acm.2011.0587. Epub 2012 Oct 12.
This review evaluates and compares published collections of the traditional literature on Traditional Chinese Medicine in terms of their scope and utility as resources for systematic searches for information of relevance to traditional evidence, clinical research, and drug discovery.
Published collections of books and compilation works that contain substantial samples of traditional literature on Chinese herbal medicine were located via internet, library, and bookshop searches. These sources were compared in terms of scope, size, content, and ease of searching.
The fourteen included collections varied considerably in scope, format, probity of included material, and accessibility. The largest was Zhong Guo Ben Cao Quan Shu (The Complete Collection of Traditional Texts on Chinese Materia Medica), with 2027 titles; followed by Zhong Hua Yi Dian (Encyclopaedia of Traditional Chinese Medicine), a compact disc (CD) of 1000 full books; and Zhong Yi Fang Ji Da Ci Dian (Great Compendium of Chinese Medical Formulas), which includes extracts derived from 680 books. Zhong Yi Fang Ji Da Ci Dian is an edited collection that is highly accessible because it is well-indexed with respect to herbal formulas and disorders. The most accessible of the large full-text collections is the Zhong Hua Yi Dian CD, which allows electronic searches. However, neither collection provides detailed bibliographic information on their included books. A collection that combines convenient search options with high quality bibliographic data is Si Ku Yi Xue Cong Shu (The Four Treasuries of Medical Works), but having only 104 titles, this is one of the smaller collections.
A two-stage process for systematic searches is suggested. Large indexed compendia such as Zhong Yi Fang Ji Da Ci Dian or electronic resources such as Zhong Hua Yi Dian can be used to locate citations, and this can be followed by crossreferencing to authenticated editions of the books to verify the retrieved information.
本综述评估和比较了已发表的中医药传统文献集，评估其作为系统性检索传统证据、临床研究和药物发现相关信息资源的范围和效用。
通过互联网、图书馆和书店搜索，找到了包含大量中草药传统文献的书籍和编纂作品的已发表文献集。这些来源在范围、大小、内容和搜索便利性方面进行了比较。
这 14 种已纳入的文献集在范围、格式、纳入材料的真实性和可及性方面存在很大差异。最大的是《中华本草全书》，有 2027 种；其次是《中华医典》，是一张包含 1000 种完整书籍的光盘；还有《中医方剂大辞典》，其中包含了 680 本书的摘录。《中医方剂大辞典》是一个编辑文集，它的索引非常方便，因为它是根据草药配方和疾病来索引的。在大型全文集中，最方便的是《中华医典》光盘，它允许进行电子搜索。但是，这两个文献集都没有提供关于其收录书籍的详细书目信息。一个将方便的搜索选项与高质量的书目数据相结合的文献集是《四库医书丛刊》，但由于只有 104 种，它是较小的文献集之一。
建议采用两阶段的系统搜索过程。大型索引类文献集，如《中医方剂大辞典》或电子资源，如《中华医典》，可用于查找引文，然后交叉参考已认证的书籍版本，以验证检索到的信息。
