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[Identification on Solanum lyratum by X-ray diffraction Fourier fingerprint and similarity analysis]
Hai-Xing Xu1, Pei-Hu Xu, Shi-He Lin
1Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China. xuhaixingwhut@163.com
Objective:
To provide an X-ray diffraction (XRD) method for identifying different medicinal parts of Solanum lyratum.
Methods:
Analyzed X-ray diffraction Fourier patterns of different parts of Solanum lyratum, and the similarity degree of different fingerprint was calculated and analyzed according to the position (2 theta value)of peaks searched.
Results:
Different X-ray diffraction Fourier patterns of different medicinal parts of Solanum lyratum were obtained.
Conclusion:
This method can be used for identifying different medicinal parts of Solanum lyratum. The results of similarity calculation further proves the feasibility of this method.
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