Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1999, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (S1): 12.

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Determination of Mineral Elements in Five Traditional Chinese Medicines by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Spectrometry with Three Different Sample Digestion Methods

WU Xi-Hong, SUN Da-Hai, ZHAO Li, WANG Xiao-Ru   

  1. Department of Chemistry and the Key Laboratory of Analytical Sciences of MOE, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P. R. China
  • Online:1999-12-31 Published:1999-12-31
  • Contact: SUN Da-Hai
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    The donation of the PS4 ICP spectrometer by Baird Corp., MA, USA, is gratefully acknowledged. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China.

Abstract:

It has been widely recognized that many mineral elements in traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) contribute to their therapeutic effects. The accurate determination of mineral elements in medicines obviously depends on the sample preparation as well as the sensitivity of the technique used for the analysis.

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