Systematic Evaluation and Analysis on Dao-di Herbs Angelica Sinensis / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

Geo-authentic habitats of Angelica Sinensis can be deduced from antiquity herbal literature's point of view. To provide basis for quality evaluation of Angelica Sinensis, this article summarized modern achievements in scientific research. To conclude genuine habitats of Angelica Sinensis, the related description of Geo-authentic habitats in ancient materia were reviewed and tested. Professional search strategy on traits and chemical characteristics of Angelica Sinensis were made to retrieve relevant literature in the CNKI database, and then the date on pharmacognostic characteristics and chemical component of crude drug from different origins were refined, and at last the date were comprehensively evaluated by Analysis of Variance, principal component and cluster analysis. and Conclusion Fourteen ancient books and one book of recent time were looked up on Herbalogical study. On this basis, twenty-six ancient origins were refined.Eight corresponding modern origins were finded through locating the place these medicines of dynasties in modern map.Combined with Frequency statistical results of modern origins and the related description of Geo-authentic habitats in ancient materia, genuine habitats of Angelica Sinensis were concluded. They are Gansu and Sichuan provinces. 75 literatures on traits and 1949 literatures on chemical characteristics of Angelica Sinensis were retrieved. The pharmacognostic characteristics of Angelica Sinensis were sumerized according to the traits. date. The results of ANOVA indicate that there exists significant difference in the quality of the samples in Gansu and Yunnan provinces among 6 different origins of Angelica Sinensis. Three principal components whose accumulated variance contribution rate was over90.641％ were obtained. Based on these principal components, samples of Angelica Sinensis from the different planting areas were clustered into three groups by within-groups linkage cluster methods. The results show that Gansu province was the best among 10 habitats. Sichuan, Yunnan Hubei, and Hubei Province were better than others habitats. The result is quite consistent with the genuine habitats of Angelica Sinensis, which is obtained from the textual research on ancient materia. The results obtained in this study can be used as references for evaluating the quality of Dao-di herbs Angelica Sinensis scientifically.