英文摘要 |
A simple high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method coupled with principal component analysis (PCA) and hierar-chical cluster analysis (HCA) was developed for distinguishing Astragali Radix from its adulterants. Five species, including A. membra-naceus var. mongolicus, A. membranaceus, H. polybotrys, A. chrysopterus and A. ernestii, were analyzed by this method. At the same time, four major bioactive isoflavonoids, namely calycosin-7-O-D-glucopyranoside, ononin, calycosin and formononetin, were simul-taneously determined in Astragali Radix. This method was proven to have good precision, repeatability, stability and recovery. It was successfully applied to distinguish Astragali Radix from its adulterants species and can be used for the quality control of Astragali Radix. |