Investigation on the plant origin and Pharmacognosy of Aiye grown in Gansu revealed that 12 species of the Artemisia genus were used either as or adultered with Aiye, instead of the genuine drug. Morphological and histological indentifications were presented to distinguish the faked drug.

Objective: To determine the contents of cinobufagin and resibufogenin in Qianglijiuxin Dripping Pills. Methods: The HPLC method was used at Kromasil C 18 column of 250mm?4.6mm, 5?m, 0.5% Dipotassium Hydrogen Phosphate Acetonitrile (50∶50) as the mobile phase, 1.0mL/min as the flow rate at detection wavelength of 296nm. Results: For cinobufagin, the linear range was 0.67?g～4.7?g and the average recovery rate was 97.78% with RSD=1.2%. For resibufogenin, the linear range was 0.33?g～2.3?g and the average recovery was rate 99.61% with RSD=2.0%.Conclusion: The method can be applied to content determination of cinobafagin and Resibufogenin in Qianglijiuxin Dripping pills.