Strategy and Chromatographic Technology of Quality Control for Traditional Chinese Medicines

The application of chromatography, a modern technology, for highly efficient separation and analysis in the research of therapeutic basis matter and quality control of traditional Chinese medicines (TCM), is summarized. A new strategy with metabonomics is put forth to achieve integral study on the therapeutic basis matter and the action mechanism of TCM and to reveal and control the comprehensive quality of TCM. The result shows that modern chromatography and hyphenated techniques are one of the important technique platforms in the quality control of TCM.