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|Articles|March 18, 2009

HPLC-MS Fingerprinting of Chinese Herbal Medicine

Scientists from Peking University Health Science Center (Beijing, China) and the University of Macau (Taipa, Macau, China) used high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with diode-array and mass spectrometry (MS) detection to distinguish between the crude herbs of four species of Herba Cistanche, a Chinese herbal medicine that has been recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia.

Scientists from Peking University Health Science Center (Beijing, China) and the University of Macau (Taipa, Macau, China) used high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with diode-array and mass spectrometry (MS) detection to distinguish between the crude herbs of four species of Herba Cistanche, a Chinese herbal medicine that has been recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. In this “fingerprinting” method, 18 characteristic peaks were identified by comparing retention times with those of reference substances.


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