A quality-comprehensive-evaluation-index-based model for evaluating traditional Chinese medicine quality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evaluating traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) quality is a powerful method to ensure TCM safety. TCM quality evaluation methods primarily include characterization evaluations and separate physical, chemical, and biological evaluations; however, these approaches have limitations. Nevertheless, researchers have recently integrated evaluation methods, advancing the emergence of frontier research tools, such as TCM quality markers (Q-markers). These studies are largely based on biological activity, with weak correlations between the quality indices and quality. However, these TCM quality indices focus on the individual efficacies of single bioactive components and, therefore, do not accurately represent the TCM quality. Conventionally, provenance, place of origin, preparatio

SUBMITTER: Chen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10375775 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature