Determination of cholic acid and muscone in Jawei Xihuang Soft Capsule / 中成药

ABSTRACT

AIM:To develop a method for determining cholic acid by HPLC-ELSD and GC was applied to determing muscone;in Jawei Xihuang Soft Capsule(Calculus Bovis,Moschus,Venenum Bufonis,Olibanum,Myrrha).METHODS:A C18 column(Kromasil C18,5 ?m,4.6 mm?250 mm)was used as stationary phase,the mobile phase was methanol-0.01% glacial acetic acid(7327) at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min.The parameters of ELSD were set as followsevaporation temperature was 40 ℃,carrier gas(N2) pressure was 200 kPa.The GC system consisted of DB-1 capillary column(30 m?0.32 mm?0.25 ?m) and FID as the detector.The programmed temperature-GC and internal standard method were employed to determine the content of muscone.RESULTS:The linear ranges of cholic acid and muscone were in the range of 45.2 ng-904 ng and 0.05 mg/mL—0.5 mg/mL respectively.The average recoveries were 99.06% and 99.40% with RSD of 1.56% and 0.95% respectively.CONCLUSION:The method is convenient and accurate,and it can be used for the quality evaluation of Jawei Xihuang Soft Capsule.