Progress in quality control of Moghania / 中国药学杂志

ABSTRACT

Moghania mainly grows in Yunnan and Guangxi, and is a kind of traditional Zhuang medicine in China. It is used to treat dispelling wind and dampness, strengthen bones and muscles, and promote blood circulation and detoxification. Moghania is also well known for its edible and medical value in folk. Currently Moghania medicinal plants are recorded in the appendix of China Pharmacopoeia and some local standards, but there is no content about the quality standard. We need to improve the quality standard to make it more accurate and specific for the multi-origin characteristics of Moghania. The literatures on Moghania were analyzed and summarized in terms of characteristics, microscopic identification, thin layer chromatography (TLC), fingerprinting, and molecular identification. The analysis result showed that the primary quality control mode of Moghania is mainly based on multi-index synchronization, total composition and fingerprints. The application of TLC, UV, HPLC, infrared spectroscopy (IR), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) and inter-simple sequence repeats-poly-merase chain reaction (ISSR-PCR) molecular markers in Moghania quality control has been investigated systemically. These results provided references for the systematical study and quality control of Moghania resource.