Multivariate quantitative analysis of quality trend based on non-volatile characteristic components in different...

In order to identify real and fake Panax notoginseng samples, the high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was used to analyze P. notoginseng samples of non-volatile characteristic components in P. notoginseng powder samples with 10 %, 30 %, 50 % ratio, combined with principal component analysis - mahalanobis distance (PCA-MD). The results showed that: (1) The PCA analysis showed that mahalanobis with different stem and leaf powder were divided into four categories, and the gravity center of the pattern (classification) showed that the long axis of the trend chart gradually increased with the increase of the proportion of the stem and leaf powder, and the trend chart was gradually away from the control group; (2) The mahalanobis distance indicated that the range of mahalanobis distance fluctuation (upper limit) of several P. notoginseng powder samples is 395.03∼48252.70. The larger the percentage of the stem and leaf powder in P. notoginseng samples, it is farther away from the normal P. notoginseng samples. It indicated that the product of P. notoginseng samples can be evaluated with the mahalanobis distance. The results of this study can be applied to identification and homogenization evaluation of P. notoginseng between real and fake samples.