Development of the fingerprints for the quality evaluation of Viscum coloratum by high Performance liquid chromatography.

A high-Performance liquid chromatography coupled ultraviolet (HPLC-UV) method was developed for a chemical fingerprint analysis of Eighteen peaks were selected as the common peaks and Homoeriodictyol-7-0-β-D-apiosiyl-(1→2)-β-D-glucoside was used as a reference. The relative areas of common peaks were used for hierarchical clustering analysis and similarity calculation. Thirty-seven samples collected from different sources were classified into five groups. The similarities of 21 batches samples were beyond 0.90. The results obtained suggest that the Chromatographie fingerprint can efficiently identify Additionally, the fingerprints can then be used to evaluate the correlation between and hosts.