Sieving Active Ingredients of Chinese Traditional Medicines by Biological Methods
用生物筛选法筛选中药活性成分的研究

In this article a biological method for sieving active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicines is described, by which the active ingredients of Chuanxiong,Mahuang and Tianma have been obtained as follows: The main active ingredients are vanillin, ferulic acid and senkyunolides in Chuanxiong; ephedrine alkaloids in Mahuang; gastrodin and p-hydroxybenzyl alcohol in Tianma. These results coincide with those reported in literatures, which show that biological methods are rapid and reliable for sieving active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicines.