A Study on Traditional Medicine Ontology

The traditional medical field needs to be studied more for applying compound reasoning using ontology because traditional medicine treats the patients by finding root cause of the symptoms rather than treating for the symptoms directly. Many countries have their own traditional medicines like traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Korean medicine, Siddha, Ayurveda and Unani. Already many projects are started to work on the ontology development for traditional medicines. In this paper, we analyze and summarize the existing medical ontology researches. This study is useful to understand the existing medical ontology system and also provide an idea to develop and enhance the traditional medicine ontology by reusing existing resources. In this study, we also propose the ontology-based medical support system to predict the seasonal diseases by combining medical ontology with Big data analysis.