Available online 2017-10-20, published 2017-11-15, Korean Herb. Med. Inf. 2017;5(3)

동북아 각국 공정서의 한약재 규격 기준 비교(9) - 강황

A Comparative Study on Standards of Korean Herbal Medicines in the Pharmacopoeias of Northeast-Asian Countries (9) Tumeric Rhizome

Authors : 양선규(Yang Sungyu), 최고야(Choi Goya)

Abstract
The standards of medicinal herbs are provided differently in each nations. So the dissimilarity of the standards should be verified for the standardization of medicinal herbs. The requirements of ‘tumeric rhizome’ were compared among the Korean Pharmacopoeia (KP), the Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP), Pharmacopoeia of the People’s Republic of China (ChP), Taiwan Herbal Pharmacopeia (THP), Hong Kong Chinese Materia Medica Standards (HCS) and the Pharmacopoeia of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DP). There were different requirements of tumeric rhizome among the pharmacopoeias, such as the origin, morphological description, identification, purity, ash content, and the assay. The differences of standards among northeast-asian countries should be investigated thoroughly in terms of efficacy and safety. This study would be a helpful reference for the revision of the regulation on herbal medicine.

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