Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances

Chinese Medicine

Mei Wang¹  Pengfei Tu²  Yuelin Song²  Tongkai Chen³  Xue Hua⁴  Xiao-Jia Chen⁴  Fong Leong⁴ 

[1] LU-European Center for Chinese Medicine and Natural Compounds, Institute of Biology, Leiden University;Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine;Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine;State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau;

关键词: Traditional Chinese medicine;    European Pharmacopoeia;    Chinese Pharmacopoeia;    Quality standard;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13020-020-00357-3

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are becoming more and more popular all over the world. However, quality issues of TCM may lead to medical incidents in practice and therefore quality control is essential to TCM. In this review, the state of TCM in European Pharmacopoeia are compared with that in Chinese Pharmacopoeia, and herbal drugs that are not considered as TCM and not elaborated by TCM working party at European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Health Care (EDQM) but present in both European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeias are also discussed. Different aspects in quality control of TCM including origins, identification, tests and assays, as well as sample preparation, marker selection and TCM processing are covered to address the importance of establishing comprehensive quality standard of TCM. Furthermore, advanced analytical techniques for quality control and standard establishment of TCM are also reviewed.

【 授权许可】

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