Association Rules Relating Food Taste and Food Characters with Kikei Roles

Based on the theory of Yakuzen, food as medicial treatment has affected dietary over a long history . Especially, there are food care principle which take the advantage of food taste and food character to support health care and treat the disease. Yakuzen theory is still regarded as a hypothesis. Many aspects of herbal treatments' effectiveness remain to be clarified. Nevertheless, research results show that many rules have been advanced for foods' associated medical roles. Kikei, one promising hypothesis, holds that food taste will play a special medicinal role in different organs. This study, using data mining techniques, particularly addresses the relation between the food taste, food character and Kikei role to extract the associated rules. Results of cluster analysis and chi-square tests show a therapeutic effect, which encourages our establishment of a systematic methodology related to food care.