Simultaneous determination of ten constituents in Xiao’er-Jinqiao granules by UPLC / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To establish a method for simultaneously determinating the content of 10 constituents including chlorogenic acid, puerarin, forsythoside A, liquiritin, matrine, saikosaponin A, saikosaponin D, forsythin, ammonium glycyrrhizate, indirubin in Xiao’er-Jinqiao granules by UPLC. Methods:ACQUITY UPLCTMC18 chromatographic column (100 mm × 2.1 mm, 1.7 μm) was used. The mobile phase was acetonitrile-0.05% phosphoric acid solution with gradient elution at the flow rate of 0.2 ml/min. The detection wavelength was 250 nm. The column temperature was 30 ℃. The injection volume was 2 μl.Results:The linear ranges of chlorogenic acid, puerarin, forsythoside A, liquiritin, matrine, saikosaponin A, saikosaponin D, forsythin, ammonium glycyrrhizate, indirubin were 0.789 5-15.793 4 μg ( r=0.999 6), 0.571 8-11.445 6 μg ( r=0.999 4), 0.110 7-2.214 7 μg ( r=0.999 3), 0.047 5-0.950 5 μg ( r=0.999 2), 0.269 8-5.395 8 μg ( r=0.999 7), 0.085 1-1.703 9 μg ( r= 0.999 5), 0.105 7-2.113 0 μg ( r=0.999 4), 0.065 6-1.312 1 μg ( r=0.999 3), 0.080 5-1.611 2 μg ( r=0.999 5), 0.057 7-1.153 3 μg ( r=0.999 4). The limits of quantitation were 8.322, 9.023, 9.857, 4.583, 6.872, 7.844, 8.643, 5.895, 7.568, 5.251 μg/ml. The average recovery rates were 99.11%, 98.87%, 97.83%, 98.10%, 98.17%, 98.30%, 98.10%, 98.14%, 97.99% and 98.02%, and RSDs were all below 2.0%, respectively. RSDs of precision, reproducibility and stability tests were lower than 2.0%. Conclusions:The established method of multi-component content determination is fast, accurate and reproducible. It can be used for the quality control of Xiao’er-Jinqiao granules.