Application of liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry technique in component analysis of Salvia miltiorrhiza / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Salvia miltiorrhiza (Danshen) is a kind of Chinese materia medica (CMM), and there has been a long history of Danshen for wide use in the treatment of numerous diseases, especially the unique therapeutic effect on cardiovascular disorders. Salvianolic acids and tanshinones are the main effective components in Danshen, which attracts the researchers' more attention for its significant biological activity. Liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry technique (LC-MS) is a rapid, sensitive, and comprehensive analytical method for the simultaneous separation and analysis, which has been widely used in the study on CMM component analysis. A large number of literatures of the application of LC-MS in the component analysis of Danshen are systematically summarized in this paper, so as to provide some indication for scientific interpretation of the effective material basis, and improve the quality control standard and comprehensive utilization of Danshen and its preparation.