A preliminary proof-of-concept of large corpus analysis of Historical Medical Recipes. This maps the presence 肉桂 (Cinnamomum verum) across two different corpora to show instances where symptoms and disease terms are correlated, and provides a rough categorisation. Drug term ontology is robust, disease terms and categorisations require work. Further development can include full-text passage retrieval for confirmation and more nuanced research.

Someone asked about the early origins of Ginseng 人參, and its relationship to Codonopsis 党参（黨參), and a region where Codonopsis is grown,...

The modern Malay language has been written in two scripts: Jawi, based on Arabic letters and Rumi, based on Roman letters. From the...