Similarities between “Big Data” and Traditional Chinese Medicine information

In this paper, we analyze the four distinct characteristics of information on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), namely epistemological information, phenomenon information, overall information, and time information. These characteristics bear to some extent strong similarity to the three characteristics of “Big Data”, namely integrity data, fuzzy data and correlation data, so the advent of the age of “Big Data” is bound to create good opportunities for the development of TCM informatics and is also be expected to provide methods and techniques for processing and analysis of TCM “comprehensive data”.