ISO/TS 6204:2024

Technical
Specification
ISO/TS 6204
First edition
Health Informatics — Categorial
2024-10
structures for representation of
Ayurvedic medicinal water —
Decocting process in Ayurveda
Informatique de santé — Structure catégorielle pour la
représentation de l'eau médicinale ayurvédique — Processus de
décoction en Ayurveda
Reference number
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
3.1 General terms .1
3.2 Characterizing categories .2
4 Categorial structure . 3
4.1 Overview .3
4.2 Semantic links .3
4.2.1 isAppliedTo .3
4.2.2 isAddedTo .4
4.2.3 isReducedIn.4
4.2.4 isReducedTo .4
4.2.5 isFiltered .4
4.2.6 use .4
Bibliography . 5

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Introduction
Ayurvedic medicine finds wide applicability world-wide as a traditional medicinal practice and its user
base is growing rapidly. It plays a significant role in healthcare. Herbal medicinal water including decoction,
hot infusion and cold infusion are among the most potent, versatile and commonly used Ayurvedic dosage
forms. Herbal decoctions are also used in other forms of traditional medical systems. Decoction is the
most common method for taking Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) medication, however, the process of
decoction making in Ayurveda is distinct.
The presence of a categorial structure-driven terminology and process system for Ayurvedic diagnosis
and treatment, including the procedure of making an Ayurvedic decoction, is essential for semantic
interoperability of Ayurvedic health records and its integration with biomedicine. This would facilitate the
consumption and computer processed analysis of research data pertaining to prescription and efficacy of
Ayurvedic decoction.
This document provides categorial structures used by the terminological systems corresponding to
Ayurvedic decoction making process.
The potential benefits of this document include:
— facilitating representation of Ayurvedic herbal decoction making process using a standard core model in
a manner suitable for computer processing;
— supporting developers to provide new terminological systems concerning the Ayurvedic herbal decoction
making process;
— supporting developers to provide new detailed content areas for existing terminological systems
concerning the Ayurvedic herbal decoction making process;
— facilitating mapping, integration and interoperability between Ayurvedic and other traditional systems
of medicine by proposing a specification for Ayurvedic herbal decoction making process;
— designing a core model describing the structure of Ayurvedic herbal decoction making process and
facilitating improved semantic correspondence with other information models;
— facilitating meta-data association, automatic processing of medicinal literature and texts on Ayurvedic
herbal decoction making process and integration of t
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