Discrimination of herbal medicines by molecular spectroscopy and chemical pattern recognition

Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2006 Oct;65(2):497-500. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2005.11.030. Epub 2006 Mar 7.

Abstract

The molecular spectroscopy (including near infrared diffuse reflection spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and infrared spectroscopy) with OPUS/Ident software was applied to clustering ginsengs according to species and processing methods. The results demonstrate that molecular spectroscopic analysis could provide a rapid, nondestructive and reliable method for identification of Chinese traditional medicine. It's found that the result of Raman spectroscopic analysis was the best one among these three methods. Comparing with traditional methods, which are laborious and time consuming, the molecular spectroscopic analysis is more effective.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Cluster Analysis
  • Drugs, Chinese Herbal / analysis
  • Drugs, Chinese Herbal / chemistry*
  • Panax / chemistry*
  • Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared*
  • Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared*
  • Spectrum Analysis, Raman*

Substances

  • Drugs, Chinese Herbal