Metabonomics/metabolomics analysis technology and its application in quality control of traditional Chinese medicines

Chinese medicines are an important part of traditional Chinese medicines, but their safe, effective, stable and controllable issue still remains to be solved. The rise of metabonomics in 20th century, consistent with the overall adjustment concept of multicomponent, multilevel, multitarget, multimetabolic pathways of traditional Chinese medicines, is conducive to solve basic problems in their quality control. This paper systematically describes recent application and development of 1H-NMR metabonomics techniques, LC-MS metabonomics techniques and GC-MS metabonomics techniques in the quality control of traditional Chinese medicines. It provides a new reference for Chinese medicines and the identification and quality assessment of their products.