Application of delayed luminescence measurements for the identification of herbal materials: a step toward rapid quality control.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Herbal materials are widely used as medicinal products, dietary supplements, food, and spices. With increased consumption, the safety, quality, and efficacy of herbal materials are becoming more relevant. The authenticity of herbal materials plays an important role in herbal quality control, and there is an urgent need to develop a simple, direct, objective, rapid, and inexpensive measurement tool for the identification of herbal materials for the purpose of quality control.

Methods

Delayed luminescence (DL) was used to measure authentic and counterfeit herbal materials. A hyperbolic function was used to extract four properties from the DL curves of the herbal materials. Statistical tools, including Student's t test and Principal Component Analysis, were us

SUBMITTER: Sun M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6819577 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature