Determination of Camphor in Traditional Chinese Medicines by Gas Chromatography with Flame Ionization Detector

Author

Tang, Zhuxing ; Chen, Yin ; Wang, Qiaoling

Author_Institution

Sch. of Environ. & Chem. Eng., Shenyang Ligong Univ., Shenyang, China

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this work, gas chromatography with flame ionization detector (GC-FID) was developed for the rapid determination of camphor and borneol in two traditional Chinese medicines (TCM): Fructus Amomi and Curcuma Aromatica Salisb. The optimal conditions obtained were: ethyl acetate for solvent, volume of ethyl acetate and extraction time of 30 min. Method validations were also studied. To demonstrate the proposed method. The results showed that the proposed GC-FID is a simple, rapid, and reliable method for quantitative analysis of camphor in TCM, and is also a potential tool for TCM quality assessment.

Keywords

chromatography; flames; ionisation; medicine; solvents (industrial); Curcuma Aromatica Salisb; Fructus Amomi; TCM quality assessment; borneol; camphor determination; ethyl acetate; flame ionization detector; gas chromatography; solvent; traditional Chinese medicines; Calibration; Compounds; Detectors; Fires; Pharmaceuticals; Quality assessment; Solvents;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2151-7614

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5088-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781526

Filename

5781526