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

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 C...

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Autores principales: Leong, Fong, Hua, Xue, Wang, Mei, Chen, Tongkai, Song, Yuelin, Tu, Pengfei, Chen, Xiao-Jia
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7388521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32742301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13020-020-00357-3
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author Leong, Fong
Hua, Xue
Wang, Mei
Chen, Tongkai
Song, Yuelin
Tu, Pengfei
Chen, Xiao-Jia
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Hua, Xue
Wang, Mei
Chen, Tongkai
Song, Yuelin
Tu, Pengfei
Chen, Xiao-Jia
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description 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. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13020-020-00357-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-73885212020-07-31 Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances Leong, Fong Hua, Xue Wang, Mei Chen, Tongkai Song, Yuelin Tu, Pengfei Chen, Xiao-Jia Chin Med Review 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. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13020-020-00357-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2020-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7388521/ /pubmed/32742301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13020-020-00357-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Leong, Fong
Hua, Xue
Wang, Mei
Chen, Tongkai
Song, Yuelin
Tu, Pengfei
Chen, Xiao-Jia
Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances
title Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances
title_full Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances
title_fullStr Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances
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title_short Quality standard of traditional Chinese medicines: comparison between European Pharmacopoeia and Chinese Pharmacopoeia and recent advances
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13020-020-00357-3
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