Preparation and Characterization of Berberine Hydrochloride Ternary Complexes / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

The debitterizing effect of ternary complexes was appraised and characterization of ternary complexes was made by infrared spectrum (IR) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The ternary complexes (β-CD/BH/WPI90) of berberine hydrochloride (BH),β-cyclodextrin)β-CD (and whey protein isolate (WPI90) were prepared with adopting coprecipitation preparation. The results showed that the ternary complexesβ-CD/BH/WPI90 can sig-nificantly reduced the bitterness of BH. The content of BH in the ternary complexes was 3.20%. It was concluded that the ternary complexesβ-CD/BH/WPI90 had significant effect in reducing the bitterness of BH. IR and DSC of the ternary complexesβ-CD/BH/WPI90 were different from the simple physical mixture.