Current quality standards of Andrographis Herba of different countries and regions.

Author: Li-Jun RUAN ¹ ; Cai-Yun YAO ¹ ; Yun-Qiu WU ¹ ; Xi-Hui LIU ¹ ; Bing-Xiong YAN ¹ ; Zhi-Jun SONG ¹ ; Peng QU ¹ ; Yan-Xia ZHU ¹ ; Yuan HUANG ¹ ; Jian-Hua MIAO ¹
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1. Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants Nanning 530023, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Andrographis Herba; pharmacopoeia; quality standard
MeSH: Andrographis; Drugs, Chinese Herbal; Materia Medica; Reference Standards
From: China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2020;45(24):5890-5897
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Andrographis Herba is a commonly used plant medicine, and has been recorded in pharmacopeias of different countries. However, there are some differences in the quality standards. Based on this, this paper compare the quality standards of Andrographis Herba between Chinese Pharmacopoeia, Hong Kong Chinese Materia Medica Standards, United States Pharmacopoeia, European Pharmacopoeia and Indian Pharmacopoeia, including origin, botanical characteristics, identification(microscopic identification and chromatographic identification), content determination, specific test(such as impurities, loss on drying, extractives, pesticides, heavy metals, mycotoxins, and other items) and storage requirements, so as to provide a reference for studying international quality standards of Andrographis.