Application of Infrared Spectroscopy in Traditional Chinese Medicine / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

In recent years, infrared spectroscopy (IR) caught the attention due to its advantages of convenient, fast, nondestructive and pollutionfree for simultaneous determination of multiponents. This article reviewed the application of mid-IR and near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in the authentic identification, quantitative analysis on active components, quality control on Chinese patent medicine, and detections on production process of Chinese herbal medicine both at home and abroad. Along with the IR technique and its related theoretical development, IR has a broad development prospect in Chinese medicine research field.