title: Fourier transform mid-infrared (MIR) and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy for rapid quality assessment of Chinese medicine preparation Honghua Oil.
abstract: Honghua Oil (HHO), a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) oil preparation, is a mixture of several plant essential oils. In this text, the extended ranges of Fourier transform mid-infrared (FT-MIR) and near infrared (FT-NIR) were recorded for 48 commercially available HHOs of different batches from nine manufacturers. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of three marker components, alpha-pinene, methyl salicylate and eugenol, in different HHO products were performed rapidly by the two vibrational spectroscopic methods, i.e. MIR with horizontal attenuated total reflection (HATR) accessory and NIR with direct sampling technique, followed by partial least squares (PLS) regression treatment of the set of spectra obtained. The results indicated that it was successful to identify alpha-pinene, methyl salicylate and eugenol in all of the samples by simple inspection of the MIR-HATR spectra. Both PLS models established with MIR-HATR and NIR spectral data using gas chromatography (GC) peak areas as calibration reference showed a good linear correlation for each of all three target substances in HHO samples. The above spectroscopic techniques may be the promising methods for the rapid quality assessment/quality control (QA/QC) of TCM oil preparations.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China.
authors.forename: Yan-Wen
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Su-Qin
authors.initials: SQ
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Qun
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Hei-Wun
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Leung
mesh_terms: D031187:Carthamus tinctorius; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000032:analysis* / Q000592:standards; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000592:standards*; D009822:Oils, Volatile / Q000032:analysis*; D011786:Quality Control; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared / Q000379:methods*; D019265:Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D009822:Oils, Volatile; C079426:Honghua extract, Carthamus tinctorius