[Exploring pharmacological principle of Artemisia carvifolia with textmining technology].

To explore the pharmacological principle of Artemisia carvifolia,the text mining technique was used. All the references of A. carvifolia were collected from PubMed database, and then the rules of the main ingredient,relative diseases, organs, tissues, proteins and metabolites were analyzed. Finally, a network was set up. Then it was found that the main ingredients included sesquiterpenoids,flavonoids,and volatileoils.The diseases such as malaria, cerebral malaria, falciparum malaria, visceral leishmaniasis and systemic lupus erythematosus were often treated with A. carvifolia. In association in organ were the liver, skin, trachea,lungs,and spleen.Correlations with tissues were mainly including macrophages, T lymphocytes, blood vessels, epithelial cells.The protein was correlation with it involved CYP450, PI3K, TNF-α, AASDPPT, DNA polymerase and so on. Comprehensive and systematic treatment principle of A. carvifolia was obtained by text mining, which was helpful in clinical application.