title: Chromatography of medicinal plants and Chinese traditional medicines.
abstract: Applications of chromatographic techniques to medicinal plants and Chinese traditional medicines are outlined in this review. Areas involved are quantitation of active principles or index or principal components; quality evaluation of crude drugs; identification, characterization and preparative isolation of new compounds for medical use from plants; analysis of pharmaceutical preparations of plant origin and pharmacokinetic and pharmacological studies of herbal drugs and their preparations.
authors.affiliation: Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, China.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000494:pharmacology; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000737:chemistry*; D011786:Quality Control
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal