Identification of Pseudostellaria Radix from Different Producing Regions and Habitat Processing Methods Based on Electronic Nose Technology / 中国药学杂志

OBJECTIVE: Pseudostellaria Radix, due to its sketchy description and individual difference during the odor evaluation, fails to come to researchers' attention. To analyze the odor of the Pseudostellaria Radix samples from different habitat processing methods and areas, and apply electronic nose technology to creating a new method for the determination of Pseudostellaria Radix. METHODS: According to the response values obtained by using electronic nose technology, two multivariate statistical methods to the data to distinguish the samples collected from different areas and habitat processing methods were applied. From the aspect of response values, the sunned Pseudostellaria Radix after boiling get lower values than the sunned ones, while the values of the samples from different producing origins vary very slightly. RESULTS: The results of the multivariate statistical methods show that principal component analysis (PCA) can differ the sunned samples from the sunned ones after boiling. With regard to the sunned ones after boiling, there is no significant difference among the three boiling time groups from 30 s to 120 s. While the two discrimination models constructed during the discriminant factor analysis (DFA) have respectively favorable identification ability in habitat processing methods and producing areas. CONCLUSION: The electronic nose technology can be used to express the odor of Pseudostellaria Radix, and in combination with multivariate statistical methods, it can differentiate Pseudostellaria Radix from different areas and habitat processing methods.

Discussion on Habitat Processing Method ofIndigo Naturalis / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

Recently, there are many prominent problems about the quality ofIndigo Naturalis. To explore the underlying reasons, both ancient and modern herbal literatures were reviewed. Through the organization of recordings onIndigo Naturalis, the traditional process method required soaking and fermentation, stiring and depositing, foaming and shade drying. The currently usedIndigo Naturalis was mostly isolated and purified from crude deposit -“Cu-Dian.” The modern process technique ofIndigo Naturalis was gradually deviated from the traditional processing method. This paper also discussed the quality standards ofIndigo Naturalis. The author considered that the current standard on descriptions ofIndigo Naturalis characteristics was deviated from the traditional morphological features ofIndigo Naturalis, which should be further researched and verified. Therefore, this study provided certain references for the quality control and market supervision ofIndigo Naturalis.