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http://dx.doi.org/10.15188/kjopp.2016.12.30.6.397

Trends in System-level Research on Quality Control of Complex Herbal Formulation  

Lee, Doo Suk (R&D Center of ViroMed Co., Ltd.)
Kim, Young Woo (College of Korean Medicine, DaeguHaany University)
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Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine / v.30, no.6, 2016 , pp. 397-401 More about this Journal
Abstract
The quality control is a fundamental procedure for the standardization of herbal medicine to guarantee the consistency of efficacy and safety. For a long time, the quality analysis of herbal medicine has been largely dependent on the routine sensory evaluation, such as taste, smell, color, and shape. However, with the recent development of analytical instruments, various scientific approaches have been introduced in this field. On the basis of the theory that the biological activities of herbal medicine are mainly contributed by its chemical compositions, several types of chemical markers have been suggested for the quality evaluation. In addition to the analytical methods for the specific marker compound(s), including analytical marker and active marker, recently, chemical fingerprinting, a method comparing the chromatographic pattern of the whole chemical components, has been developed and widely accepted as a reliable approach for the quality control of herbal medicine. Moreover, in order to exactly understand the relationship between complex compounds and their holistic biological activities in herbal medicine, unique strategies, such as "BECCs (bioactive equivalent combinatorial components)" and "PhytomicsQC" have been established. In this article, we give an overview of the several categories of chemical markers and the recent research trends for the quality evaluation of herbal medicine.
Keywords
Quality control; Herbal medicine; Chemical markers; Biological activities;
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