Editorial

Quality Control of Natural Product Medicine and Nutrient Supplements

Table 1

The analytical techniques and methods of natural product medicine.

Analytical techniquesChromatographic or spectroscopic methods

Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) techniquesHigh-performance TLC (HPTLC), microemulsion TLC (ME-TLC), and so forth
Gas chromatography (GC) techniquesGC-MS, two-dimensional GC (GC × GC), and so forth
High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) techniquesHPLC-UV, HPLC-DAD, HPLC-ELSD, HPLC-FLD, HPLC-RID, HPLC-MS, HPLC-CEAD, HPLC-ESI/TOF-MS, UPLC-ESI/TOF-MS, and so forth
Capillary electrophoresis (CE) techniquesCE, capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC), nonaqueous CE (NACE), capillary electrochromatography (CEC), and so forth
Infrared spectroscopy (IR) techniquesFT-IR, two-dimensional infrared (2D-IR), and so forth
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) techniquesNIR, two-dimensional near-infrared (2D-NIR), and so forth
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniquesQuantitative NMR (qNMR), diffusion-ordered spectroscopy (DOS) NMR, three-dimensional DOSY NMR, and so forth