Study on chemical fingerprint of Wuwei Xiaoduyin Oral Liquid and simultaneous determination of six characteristic components / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Objective: To establish the HPLC chemical fingerprints of Wuwei Xiaoduyin Oral Liquid (WXOL) and simultaneous determination method for six major characteristic components in this herbal preparation, i.e. chlorgenic acid, luteoloside, luteolin, linarin, caffeic acid, and esculetin. Methods: Both chemical fingerprint analysis and quantitative determination were implemented by Agilent 1260 high performance liquid chromatography system with an Agilent 5 TC-C18 column (250 mm × 4.6 mm, 5 μm). A gradient elution program, with the mobile phase of 0.5% glacial acetic acid aqueous solution (A) and methanol (B), was employed as following 0—10 min, 10%—32% B; 10—20 min, 32% B; 20—25 min, 32%—46% B; 25—31 min, 46%—48% B; 31—41 min, 48%—80% B at the flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. The detection wavelength and column temperature were set at 320 nm and 30 ℃, respectively. Additionally, fingerprint similarity of 10 batches of WXOL was evaluated by software “Similarity Evaluation System for Chromatographic Fingerprint of TCM” published by GPC (Version 2012). The amounts of six characteristic components in WXOL were also simultaneously determined. Results: The common fingerprint pattern derived from 10 batches of samples was obtained with the similarity over 0.98 and 17 common peaks defined. Meanwhile, some common peaks were identified via peak pattern match with standard substances, showing that the peak No.5, No.7, No.8, No.12, No.16, and No.17 was chlorgenic acid, esculetin, caffeic acid, luteoloside, linarin, and lutelin, respectively. Chlorgenic acid content range of 54.038 3—105.551 1 μg/mL, esculetin content range of 4.122 1—31.359 9 μg/mL, caffeic acid content range of 2.413 0—4.420 7 μg/mL, luteoloside content range of 4.042 8—11.312 8 μg/mL, linarin content range of 3.866 3—46.271 9 μg/mL, and luteolin content range of 0.990 8—2.126 8 μg/mL. In combination with the non-significant difference of multiple characteristic components content among 10 batches of samples, the quality of home-made WXOL would be stable. Conclusion: A novel quality control method, which is HPLC fingerprint in combination with simultaneous quantitative analysis of multiple components, was established in this study, with high repeatability and reliability. Therefore, this method provides an applicable approach for the quality control of WXOL.