Progress in fingerprint technology on Chinese materia medica and prospect of its future development / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Fingerprint of Chinese materia medica (CMM), which could be used to comprehensively analyze the information of the type and content distribution of the effective and ineffective components in CMM, is in line with the integral and fuzzy characteristics of CMM and has held its own important space in modern and future CMM quality control. As more and more technologies have been applied to the fingerprint research of CMM, it is sure to play a much more important role in many aspects, such as the quality control of CMM, the researches of efficient components, and the mechanism in CMM, and so on. This paper generalizes the research in progresses in research and analytic methods on CMM fingerprint technology, and the prospect of the future development in the fingerprint is discussed.