CURRENT AND FUTURE APPROACHES TO THE QUALITY OF CONTROL OF CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINES

摘要

<正>Quality of control of Chinese herbal medicines is currently mainly based on specifications of pharmacopoeias.Challenges are the limited specificiity of some of these methods,the use of various grades and processed materials,which cannot easily be distinguished,and the increasing use of granules,which are so far not considered in most pharmacopoeias.For identity and purity testing,microscopy and TLC fingerprint analysis are currently