Binary HPLC-diode array detector and HPLC-evaporative light-scattering detector fingerprints of methanol extracts from the selected sage (Salvia) species

J AOAC Int. 2011 Jan-Feb;94(1):71-6.

Abstract

This study is focused on an important family of the sage (Salvia) species, with Salvia officinalis L. having a long-established position in European traditional medicine. Binary fingerprints (chromatographic profiles) of six different sage species were compared using HPLC coupled with two different detectors: the diode-array detector and the evaporative light-scattering detector. Advantages of using binary fingerprinting over single-detector fingerprinting are demonstrated and discussed, with selected examples. Experimental data are provided for a comparison of the chemical composition of sage samples originating from two harvesting seasons (2007 and 2008). A number of phytochemical standards (i.e., certain phenolic acids, flavonoids, and coumarin) were used that allowed identification and semiquantitative estimation of these particular compounds in the analyzed methanol extracts.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Camphanes
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / instrumentation*
  • Coumarins / analysis
  • Drugs, Chinese Herbal
  • Flavonoids / analysis
  • Hydroxybenzoates / analysis
  • Light
  • Methanol
  • Panax notoginseng
  • Plant Extracts / chemistry
  • Salvia / chemistry*
  • Salvia miltiorrhiza
  • Salvia officinalis / chemistry
  • Scattering, Radiation
  • Species Specificity

Substances

  • Camphanes
  • Coumarins
  • Drugs, Chinese Herbal
  • Flavonoids
  • Hydroxybenzoates
  • Plant Extracts
  • danshen dripping pill
  • phenolic acid
  • Methanol