ABSTRACT
AIM: To identify and quantitative analysis gentiopicroside content in the extract of Violent gentian of Tibetan herbal medicine. METHODS: Application of HPLC-the electricity sprays fog-mass spectroscopy/mass spectroscopy(HPLC-ESI-MS/MS) and the technique of LC-DAD-UV,by contrast with the reservation time of the authentic gentiopicroside,the ultraviolet absorbed spectrum,the molecule~+,quickly identified the gentiopicroside in the extract of violent gentian.As to it's quantitative analyis we adopted the capillary HPLC methods,with the weight of authentic gentiopicroside for abscissa. RESULTS: MS showed that the methanol extract of violet gentian mainly had five peaks.the compound structure of first peak was gentiopicroside,molecule~+ 356.9,result showed that gentiopicroside in gentian was 1.97%. CONCLUSION: Gentiopicroside is the mainly component of violet Gentia.