Abstract: Objective To count the use of Chinese medicine in the treatment of children with recurrent respiratory tract infection in children and to explore the medication rules.Methods Using Excel software, the literatures on TCM compound treatment for children with recurrent respiratory tract infection were collected from CNKI,Wanfang Database,Vipnet and PubMed from the inception to Apr. 2022.The data mining analysis was carried out with the help of association rules and clustering analysis methods integrated by IBM SPSS Modeler and IBM SPSS Statistics. Results A total of 113 prescriptions were included, involving 144 kinds of TCM. The single medicine with the highest frequency was Atractylodes macrocephala. The medicines were mostly cold and sweet in nature, and functioned through lung meridian. The two and three associations with high confidence were astragalus-atractylodes and astragalus-atractylodes-windproof. Based on cluster analysis, when the high-frequency TCM was clustered into three categories, five TCM prescriptions could be obtained.Conclusion At present, traditional Chinese medicine is used as basic treatment for children with recurrent respiratory tract infection by invigorating qi, tonifying the spleen, nourishing the lungs and relieving the external symptoms supplemented by regulating qi and digesting food and other foods. In this study, five prescriptions were obtained, including Ginseng-schisandra decoction, Guizhi decoction, Baohe pill, Yupingfeng powder and Shenling Baizhu powder.

Key words:

Recurrent respiratory tract infection, Drug use rules, Data mining