The present invention discloses a method for constructing a
fingerprint of a
tangerine seed and a
traditional Chinese medicine preparation thereof and its application, and relates to the technical field of
traditional Chinese medicine identification. The method for constructing a
fingerprint of a
tangerine seed and a
traditional Chinese medicine preparation thereof comprises: extracting the
tangerine seed or the traditional Chinese
medicine preparation thereof with a first extraction
solvent to obtain a
test solution; dissolving or extracting a reference substance and / or a tangerine seed reference medicinal material with a second extraction
solvent to obtain a reference substance solution and / or a reference medicinal material solution; measuring the
test solution, the reference substance solution and / or the reference medicinal material solution with a liquid chromatograph to obtain a
fingerprint of the tangerine seed or the traditional Chinese
medicine preparation thereof; wherein the
chromatographic column of the liquid chromatograph uses octadecylsilane bonded
silica gel as the
stationary phase,
acetonitrile as the mobile phase A, and a
phosphoric acid aqueous solution with a concentration of 0.1 vol% to 0.5 vol% as the mobile phase B for
gradient elution, and the reference substances include a vecinin-2 reference substance, a
hesperidin reference substance, a
limonin reference substance, a nomilin reference substance, and a
flavonoid reference substance; the first extraction
solvent and the second extraction solvent are
methanol aqueous solutions with a concentration of 30 vol% to 100 vol%. The fingerprints constructed by the present invention contain rich characteristic peak information, enabling identification from common counterfeits. Furthermore, the construction method is simple, stable, and highly specific, making it applicable to various types of tangerine seed slices and their standard decoctions and granules.