Analysis of Phytomedicines

Abstract

Abstract:

As widely used medicines in the world, phytomedicines played important roles in human health. The analysis of herbal medicines is important for the development of new drugs and functional food. Such analysis includes traditional methods, including metabolite extraction, component isolation and structure elucidation, and the hyphenated techniques with the combination of chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques. Here, we review the general procedures of traditional methods and hyphenated techniques for phytomedicine analysis with emphasis on the hyphenated HPLC-DAD-SPE-NMR-MS techniques.

Key words: NMR, phytomedicines, chromatography, mass spectroscopy

CLC Number:

O657.61

YU Hai-Yan, WU Xiang-Yu, ZHANG Li-Min, TANG Hui-Ru. Analysis of Phytomedicines[J]. Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2012, 29(1): 128-141.

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