Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To establish the HPLC fingerprints of Zhixiao Pingchuan granules, and to determine the content of its index components, so as to provide a reference basis for the quality standard of the preparation.
METHODS An Agilent ZORBAX SB-C18 column(250 mm×4.6 mm, 5 μm) was used, with acetonitrile-0.1% phosphoric acid as the mobile phase, the column temperature was set at 25 ℃, with the flow rate of 1 mL·min−1, and the injection volume of 10 μL, the detection wavelength of rutin was 230 nm, and that of the other components was 220 nm. The HPLC fingerprints of 15 batches of Zhixiao Pingchuan granules were established and evaluated for similarity using the “Chinese Medicine Chromatographic Fingerprint Similarity Evaluation System(2012 Edition)”, and the cluster analysis, principal component analysis, and partial least squares discriminant analysis were carried out using the SPSS 27.0 software and SIMCA 14.1 software, and the contents of 8 ingredients, including paeoniflorin, were determined and analyzed by transfer rate at the same time.
RESULTS The similarity of the fingerprints of the 15 batches of samples was greater than 0.99. The 21 peaks were calibrated, and 10 active ingredients were identified and attributed to the herbs. The results of cluster analysis and principal component analysis indicated that S1–S4 were clustered into one category, and S5–S15 were clustered into another category. The contents of the index components such as paeoniflorin, rutin, naringin, neohesperidin, baicalin, quercetin, baicalein, and subwild irisin were 2.5883–2.7932, 0.7808–1.4214, 4.6261–5.2143, 5.8996–6.2241, 13.4982–14.2202, 0.4902–0.5091, 0.4514–0.6185, and 0.1012–0.2056 mg·g−1, respectively. The transfer rates of herbs to tablets and tablets to granules were 83.16%–85.05%, 51.69%–54.99% for paeoniflorin, 79.49%–82.45%, 40.80%–54.58% for rutin, 88.20%–88.62%, 65.36%–74.81% for naringin, 82.98%–84.01%, 70.84%–80.90% for neohesperidin, 89.62%–95.35%, 80.27%–94.42% for baicalin, 56.01%–58.34%, 46.71%–52.60% for quercetin, 85.40%–88.64%, 41.27%–49.56% for baicalein, and 73.38%–73.92%, 33.24%–38.25% for irisflorentin.
CONCLUSION The established fingerprints and content determination methods for Zhixiao Pingchuan granules are reliable, and the simultaneous analysis of chemical pattern recognition can provide a reference basis for the quality standard of the preparations.