Application status and prospect of ultra-performance liquid chromatography in analysis field of Chinese materia medica / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Chinese materia medica (CMM) have many unique characteristics, such as complex chemical compositions, large differences in properties, and difficulty in separation. Pharmacists try to use various analytical methods to analyze the chemical compositions in CMM. With the development of liquid chromatography technology, the ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) has been applied in the analysis field of CMM, and further promoted the in-depth study of CMM. This paper summarizes the development history of HPLC and UPLC, describes its current application in the analysis field of CMM, and provides an outlook of the future development of UPLC. The purpose of this paper is to promote the more reasonable and wider application of UPLC in the field of CMM analysis.