The processing of traditional Chinese herbal drugs is a general term based on the theory of TCM and its characteristic for treating medicinal substances by various means before the medical use. In China, Master Lei's Discourse on Drug Processing [1] is the earliest book that describes the method of drug processing clearly. It includes the principle of drug processing which can increase the effi...

Hepatic disease (Liver disease) is a term for a collection of conditions, diseases, and infections that affect the cells, tissues, structures, or functions of the liver. Liver has a wide range of functions, including detoxification, protein synthesis, and production of biochemical necessary for digestion and synthesis as well as breakdown of small and complex molecules, many of which are necess...

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Adulteration of herbal supplements with synthetic drugs is illegal. A rapid and reliable method which utilizes direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry (DART-MS) was developed for the identification of seven synthetic antidiabetic drugs used as adulterants in herbal dietary supplements. The supplement sample was simply extracted with methanol/water by manually shaking several times and di...