通讯作者：潘新波，E-mail：sinpo_pan@163.com

    natural and the neutral medicine. The average contents of Zn and Fe in warm-hot natural medicine were higher than those in the cool-cold nature and the neutral medicine. The average content of Cu in the neutral medicine was higher than in the warm-hot natural and the cool-cold nature medicine. Conclusion The distribution of inorganic elements in 20 kinds of wind-expelling medicine has correlation with the cold-heat natural plants-based medicine.

    Keywords： wind-expelling medicine； inorganic elements； inductively coupled plasma - optical emission spectrometry； Spearman correlation analysis； principal component analysis； systematic cluster analysis

    风药作为中药传统分类的一大类别 ......