TY  - JOUR
ID  - discovery10091187
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  -  Life Sciences & Biomedicine
KW  -  Pharmacology & Pharmacy
KW  -  herbal medicine
KW  -  medicinal plant
KW  -  analysis
KW  -  quality
KW  -  pharmacopoeia
KW  -  complexity
KW  -  advances
KW  -  NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY
KW  -  SUPERCRITICAL-FLUID CHROMATOGRAPHY
KW  -  GAS-LIQUID-CHROMATOGRAPHY
KW  -  GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN
KW  -  MASS-SPECTROMETRY
KW  -  HEART-DISEASE
KW  -  LICORICE ROOT
KW  -  EXTRACTION
KW  -  CONSTITUENTS
KW  -  FLAVONOIDS
JF  - Frontiers in Pharmacology
AV  - public
N2  - The analysis of medicinal plants has had a long history, and especially with regard to
assessing a plant?s quality. The first techniques were organoleptic using the physical
senses of taste, smell, and appearance. Then gradually these led on to more advanced
instrumental techniques. Though different countries have their own traditional medicines
China currently leads the way in terms of the number of publications focused on medicinal
plant analysis and number of inclusions in their Pharmacopoeia. The monographs
contained within these publications give directions on the type of analysis that should
be performed, and for manufacturers, this typically means that they need access to more
and more advanced instrumentation. We have seen developments in many areas of
analytical analysis and particularly the development of chromatographic and
spectroscopic methods and the hyphenation of these techniques. The ability to
process data using multivariate analysis software has opened the door to
metabolomics giving us greater capacity to understand the many variations of chemical
compounds occurring within medicinal plants, allowing us to have greater certainty of not
only the quality of the plants and medicines but also of their suitability for clinical research.
Refinements in technology have resulted in the ability to analyze and categorize plants
effectively and be able to detect contaminants and adulterants occurring at very low levels.
However, advances in technology cannot provide us with all the answers we need in order
to deliver high-quality herbal medicines and the more traditional techniques of assessing
quality remain as important today.
EP  - 14
A1  - Fitzgerald, M
A1  - Heinrich, M
A1  - Booker, A
VL  - 10
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2019.01480
Y1  - 2020/01/09/
TI  - Medicinal Plant Analysis: A Historical and Regional Discussion of Emergent Complex Techniques
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