title: Current application of chemometrics in traditional Chinese herbal medicine research.
abstract: Traditional Chinese herbal medicines (TCHMs) are promising approach for the treatment of various diseases which have attracted increasing attention all over the world. Chemometrics in quality control of TCHMs are great useful tools that harnessing mathematics, statistics and other methods to acquire information maximally from the data obtained from various analytical approaches. This feature article focuses on the recent studies which evaluating the pharmacological efficacy and quality of TCHMs by determining, identifying and discriminating the bioactive or marker components in different samples with the help of chemometric techniques. In this work, the application of chemometric techniques in the classification of TCHMs based on their efficacy and usage was introduced. The recent advances of chemometrics applied in the chemical analysis of TCHMs were reviewed in detail.
authors.affiliation: Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Function Materials, College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guangxi 541004, China.
authors.forename: Yipeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Function Materials, College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guangxi 541004, China.
authors.forename: Zhenwei
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Function Materials, College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guangxi 541004, China.
authors.forename: Rihui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Function Materials, College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guangxi 541004, China. Electronic address: guihuaruan@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Guihua
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ruan
authors.affiliation: Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Function Materials, College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guangxi 541004, China.
authors.forename: Fuyou
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Du
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yet-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China. Electronic address: cesgkl@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Gongke
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002845:Chromatography / Q000379:methods; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000032:analysis*; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal
keywords: Bioactive components; Chemometrics; Pharmacological efficacy; Quality control; Traditional Chinese herbal medicine