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OBJECTIVE To establish the HPLC fingerprint of Mongolian medicine Sanzisan ，and to evaluate its internal quality by chemical pattern recognition technique comprehensively. METHODS HPLC method was used. Using geniposide as reference，HPLC fingerprints of 15 batches of Sanzisan were drawn with Similarity Evaluation System of TCM Chromatogram Fingerprint（2012 edition）. Similarity evaluation and common peaks identification were conducted. Combined with cluster analysis （CA），principal component analysis （PCA），and orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis （OPLS-DA），the quality of 15 batches of Sanzisan was evaluated ，and the differential markers that affected its quality were screened. RESULTS There were 29 common peaks in 15 batches of Sanzisan ，and the similarity was no less than 0.952，indicating that the chemical composition of the 15 batches of Sanzisan had good consistency. A total of 13 common peaks were identified ，which were chebulic acid ，gallic acid，punicalin，punicalagin A ，punicalagin B ，jasminoside B ，caffeic acid ，corilagin，geniposide，chebulagic acid ，1，2，3，4，6- O-galloylglucose，chebulinic acid ，ellagic acid. Both CA and PCA could divide 15 batches of Sanzisan into four categories ，and the classification results were consistent ，indicating that the quality of 15 batches of Sanzisan had certain differences. Fourteen differential markers （chebulic acid ，gallic acid ，ellagic acid ，etc）that lead to the quality difference between batches were screened out by OPLS-DA. CONCLUSIONS Established HPLC fingerprint analysis method is simple and stable. Combined with chemical pattern recognition analysis ，it can be used for the quality control of Sanzisan.
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OBJECTIVE To establi sh the method for the con tent determination of 11 components in Terminalia chebula from different origins ，and to provide reference for their quality evaluation and superior provenance screening. METHODS Taking 16 batches of T. chebula from different origins as test samples ，high performance liquid chromatography tandem triple quadrupole mass spectrometry was established to determine the contents of 11 components，such as vitexin ，gallic acid ，methyl gallate ，ethyl gallate，ellagic acid ，corilagin，shikimic acid ，ferulic acid ，luteolin，quercetin and rutin. The determination was performed on Shim-pack GIST-HP C 18 column with mobile phase consisted of 0.1％ formic acid solution-methanol at the flow rate of 0.25 mL/ min（gradient elution ）. The sample size was 3 μL，and the column temperature was 35 ℃. Electrospray ionization source was used in positive and negative ion mode ，with multiple reaction monitoring. The atomized gas flow rate was 3 L/min，the heating gas flow rate was 10 L/min，the interface temperature was 300 ℃，the desolvent temperature was 526 ℃，and the heating block temperature was 400 ℃ . Grey correlation analysis （GRA）and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution （TOPSIS）methods were used to compare ，analyze and comprehensively evaluate T. chebula from different origins. RESULTS The results of content determination methodology met the relevant requirements. The contents of 11 components in 16 batches of T. chebula were 7.27-106.38，5 370.24-31 010.43，21.42-1 097.50，4.26-111.09，17 940.42-38 490.18，6 247.26-40 182.18，12 125.94- 209 519.96，2.71-9.04，0.24-44.12，1.49-9.17 and 25.35-126.51 μg/g，respectively. The results of GRA and TOPSIS analysis showed that the comprehensive qualities of sample H 12（from Yunnan ），H11（from Guangxi ），H5（from Hunan ），H14（from Guangdong），H13（from Sichuan ），H8（from Guangdong ），H1（from Yunnan ）were better. CONCLUSIONS The established method is fast ，sensitive and reliable ，and can be suitable for comprehensive evaluation of the internal quality and superior provenance screening of T. chebula .