Research Progress on Spectral Analysis for Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM)

Traditional chinese medicine( TCM) can treat different illness and fully reflect the dialectical treatment. In order to realize safe,reliable and effective quality standards and evaluation of TCM system,the analysis for TCM is particularly important. As a high-sensitive,accurate,and rapid detecting method,the spectral analysis technique has been widely used in detection of TCM,and relevant results were obtained. This paper described the present situation of spectral analysis for TCM,mainly including infrared spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. The concept of prescription spectroscopy was put forward. Taking the spectral analysis technology as the tool and based on the TCM,prescription spectroscopy will reveal the relationship between single herb decoction and its prescription and the correlation between combination law of prescription and its curative effect,with the aim to build intact prescription spectroscopy frame. The last part of the paper is the further prospect to the development of spectral analysis for TCM.