Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances
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...
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doaj-b27aafa347dc4effa00bdc001839c11c2020-11-25T03:28:28ZengBMCChinese Medicine1749-85462020-07-0115112010.1186/s13020-020-00357-3Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advancesFong Leong0Xue Hua1Mei Wang2Tongkai Chen3Yuelin Song4Pengfei Tu5Xiao-Jia Chen6State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of MacauState Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of MacauLU-European Center for Chinese Medicine and Natural Compounds, Institute of Biology, Leiden UniversityScience and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese MedicineModern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese MedicineModern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese MedicineState Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of MacauAbstract 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.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13020-020-00357-3Traditional Chinese medicineEuropean PharmacopoeiaChinese PharmacopoeiaQuality standard |
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Fong Leong Xue Hua Mei Wang Tongkai Chen Yuelin Song Pengfei Tu Xiao-Jia Chen Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances Chinese Medicine Traditional Chinese medicine European Pharmacopoeia Chinese Pharmacopoeia Quality standard |
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Fong Leong Xue Hua Mei Wang Tongkai Chen Yuelin Song Pengfei Tu Xiao-Jia Chen |
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Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances |
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Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances |
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Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances |
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Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances |
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Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances |
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quality standard of traditional chinese medicines: comparison between european pharmacopoeia and chinese pharmacopoeia and recent advances |
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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. |
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Traditional Chinese medicine European Pharmacopoeia Chinese Pharmacopoeia Quality standard |
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