title: [Determination of the contents of trace elements in chinese herbal medicines for treating respiratory system diseases].
abstract: There is an intimate connection between trace elements and body healthiness, trace elements and organism depend on each other, and each trace element exists with certain proportion, which preserve physio-function. If the balance is of maladjustment, diseases may occur or develop. The trace elements were determined in 16 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines by atomic absorption spectrometry. The medicines include lilium brownii, herba houttuyniae, licorice root, radices isatidis seu baphicacanthi, Sehizandra sinensis Bail, Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Beimu, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, Lithospermum officinalel, Rhizoma acori gramjnoi, Pinellia ternate Breit, Salisburia adiantifolia, Lonicera japonica, Radices puerarire, Bupleurum falcatum and Ligusticum wallichii, all of which could be bought on the market. Sixteen kinds of Chinese herbal medicines commonly used to treat respiratroy system diseases in clinic were selected, dried and powdered, completely mixed, 1.000 0 g was weighed accurately with analytical balance, and 3 portions were used for each kind of sample. The atomic absorption spectrometry was used to determine the contents of trace elements (Cu, Zn, Fe, Cr, Ni and Mn), and the content discrepancy of the trace elements in different medicines was observed the results shows that the contents of the trace elements were rich in the 16 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, there were more contents of Fe, Zn and Mn, but they were different in different medicines. And there were more trace elements in Salisburia adiantifolia, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, Bupleurum falcatum, Sehizandra sinensis Bail, Pinellia ternate Breit and Lithospermum officinalel, and lower trace elements in Radices puerarire, Rhizoma acori gramjnoi and Radices isatidis seu baphicacanthi. The analytic results provided useful data for using Chinese herbal medicines and provided theoretical basis for studying Chinese herbal medicines theory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Jilin Medical College, Jilin 132013, China. hlq1970@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Li-Qin
authors.initials: LQ
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Shun-Fu
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Jian-Hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry*; D019216:Metals, Heavy / Q000032:analysis*; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D019216:Metals, Heavy