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OBJECTIVE：To study the diff erences in the overall chemical constituents of Angelicae dahuricae with and without sulphur-fumigation，and to select chemical markers that can be used for identification. METHODS ：Each 16 batches of A. dahuricae with and without sulphur-fumigation were selected as samples. Deuterated methanol-deuterium oxide （1 ∶ 0.2，V/V）was used as extraction solvent ，and 1H-NMR metabolomics was used to detect the primary and secondary metabolites in A. dahuricae . In addition ，visual analysis ，principal component analysis （PCA）and t-test were used to compare the component differences of A. dahuricae by two kinds of pretreatment methods. RESULTS ：A total of 19 chemical constituents such as coumarins ，amino acids and sugars were simultaneously detected and identified from two kinds of A. dahuricae . Visual analysis showed that the chemical profiles of the two kinds of A. dahuricae were similar ，but their coumarins and carbohydrates were quite different in 1H-NMR signal intensity. PCA analysis showed that all samples could be divided into two categories according to different treatment methods. The results of t-test showed that the contents of oxypeucedanin ，imperatorin，glucose and sucrose of A. dahuricae were decreased significantly after sulphur fumigation （P＜0.01 or P＜0.001），while the contents of alanine and leucine were significantly increased （P＜0.01 or P＜0.001）. There was no statistical significance in the contents of other 13 kinds of components （P＞0.05）. CONCLUSIONS：There are obvious differences in the 6 chemical compounds of oxypeucedanin ，imperatorin，glucose，sucrose， alanine and leucine in A. dahuricae with and without sulphur-fumigation ，which can be used as chemical markers for the identification of sulphur-fumigated A. dahuricae in the market.
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OBJECTIVE:To establish a method for the contents determination of 5 coumarins in sulphur-fumigated and no sul-phur-fumigated Glehnia littoralis,and investigate the effect of sulphur fumigation on the coumarins in G. littoralis. METHODS:HPLC was performed on the column of Hypersil ODS C18 with mobile phase of acetonitrile-0.1% phosphoric acid (gradient elu-tion)at a flow rate of 1.0 ml/min,detection wavelength was 295 nm,column temperature was 30 ℃,and the volume was 20 μl. RESULTS:The linear range was 0.121 5-12.15 μg/L for psoralen,0.389-38.9 μg/L for xanthotoxin,0.055-5.5 μg/L for bergapten, 0.070 5-7.05 μg/L for imperatorin and 0.092 5-9.25 μg/L for isoimperatorin(r≥0.999 7);RSD of precision test was lower than 1.0,RSDs of reproducibility and stability tests were lower than 3.0;recovery was 98.01%-101.97%(RSD<3.0%,n=6). CON-CLUSIONS:The content of coumarins in G. littoralis was obviously decreased after sulphur fumigation. the method is simple and accurate,and canbe used for the quality control of sulphur-fumigated and no sulphur-fumigated G. littoralis.