Dataset of traditional Chinese medicines consumption in Shanghai, China

Traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) are a healing approach that originated in China thousands of years ago and becoming popular in recent years across the world. However, there are potential contaminations such as heavy metals, fungi and pesticides in TCMs, which may be harmful to consumers. Statistical analysis of consumption of traditional Chinese medicines is a notable prerequisite for risk assessment and rational-use policies of traditional Chinese medicines. However, there are few studies on consumption of Chinese medicines. Therefore, the raw data which came from hospitals was analyzed by the programming language of R and MySQL. The analyzed data includes the annual consumption, annual consumption days and average daily consumption of the 16 selected Chinese medicines and all Chinese medicines consumed. The result shows Astragali Radix, Coicis Semen and danshen are the top three of the consumption among the selected Chinese medicines. This dataset lays the foundation for the construction of a Chinese medicine consumption database.

中医药（TCMs）源于数千年前之中国，历经岁月沉淀，近年来在全球范围内逐渐受到瞩目。然而，中医药中可能存在重金属、真菌及农药等潜在的污染，这些成分对消费者可能造成危害。对传统中医药消费的统计分析，是风险评估和合理使用政策的显著前提。然而，关于中医药消费的研究尚显匮乏。因此，本研究收集来自医院的原始数据，采用R编程语言和MySQL数据库进行分析。分析数据包括16种选中中医药及所有中医药的年度消费量、年度消费天数和平均日消费量。结果显示，黄芪、薏苡仁和丹参在选中中医药中的消费量位居前三。本数据集为构建中医药消费数据库奠定了基础。