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“ Fingerprint Spectrum” Is A Questionable Word GroupLuo Xu Abstract Traditional Chinese medicines, including the materials and the patent medicines, are difficult to identify and their quality is even more difficult to assess in a modern way. This is an urgent problem in traditional Chinese pharmacology. Influenced by the administrative experience of some developed countries in herbal medicines, an upsurge in using modern analytical methods, such as HPLC, FTIR, HRMS, but mainly the first, to take various spectra for identification of T.C.M. has recently been in the making. This enthusiasm is to be amply affirmed. But soon afterwards some researchers began to add the word group “fingerprint spectrum” to the name of the spectrum actually taken to form another word group, such as “infrared spectrum fingerprint spectrum”. This kind of wording is incoherent. In this paper, a proposal of adopting the word “characterstics”, which has the advantages of being geared to the actual circumstances, clearness and plainness, instead of the word group “fingerprint spectrum”is put forward. And the progress of researches made in the recent 20 years on the quality control of T.C.M. is briefly analyzed.Key words HPLC fingerprint, Fingerprint, Profile
“指纹图谱”是一个值得商榷的词组 罗 旭 摘要
中药包括中药材和中成药，真伪难鉴别，质量更难按现代科学方法评定。这是一个急待解决的中药学难题。受发达国家管理草药经验的影响，近来国内兴起一个用各种现代分析方法鉴定中药的热潮，这是必须充分肯定的。在所用的方法中有高效液相色谱法、付立叶变换红外光谱法、高分辨质谱法等，主要是第一种方法。但随后一些研究人员在实际绘制的图谱名称后面加上词组“指纹图谱”，形成如“红外光谱指纹图谱”等一些新的词组。这样的措辞至少未能把两个“谱”的关系表达清楚。本文提出用具有切合实际而针对性强、清楚和质朴的优点的词“特征”代替词组“指纹图谱”的建议。继而对近20年中药质量控制研究的进步进行了简要分析。 罗旭 男，78岁，博士生导师、教授，从事分析化学和药物分析的教学和研究工作。 |