Study on chemical fingerprinting of crude and processed Atractylodes macrocephala from different locations in Zhejiang province by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with hierarchical cluster analysis

Abstract

This was the first report of hierarchical cluster analysis of crude and processed Atractylodes macrocephala according to their chemical fingerprints and could be applied to the intrinsic quality control of crude and processed Atractylodes macrocephala. The processing technique of Atractylodes macrocephala through the pilot-scale experiment was first studied and is simple and suitable for prepared yin pian of Atractylodes macrocephala industrial manufacture.