Chinese Journal of Chromatography ›› 2010, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (12): 1192-1195.DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1123.2010.01192

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Structural features in composition of different parts of Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn

WANG Yun, AZEEM Intisar, BOIMA KIAZOLU J, LIU Haiyan, ZHANG Weibing*   

  1. School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
  • Received:2010-09-09 Revised:2010-10-27 Online:2010-12-28 Published:2010-08-28

Abstract: To investigate the characters of different parts of Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn, a high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method was used to analyze the extracts of different parts (including tender sprouts, roots, stems, leaves, flowers, seeds, etc.) of Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn with different solvents. There was much difference in the composition of different parts of Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. The sequence of the total number of components existed is as follows: tender sprouts, seeds, flowers, leaves, roots, stems. The obvious differences of polar components were observed not only in the nature of the compounds extracted by different solvents. The experiments will provide results for the development of fingerprint and application of Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn.

Key words: Chinese herbal medicine, composition, Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)