“…Owing to the significant pharmacological activities between the two groups of the active components from SM and PN, it is necessary to develop a more efficient method for simultaneous detection of phenolic acids and triterpene saponins which are as the main active biomarkers in Dantonic pill. However, until now, only in vitro and in vivo quantitative methods for detecting either phenolic acids or triterpene saponins have been reported exhaustively (Deng, Wang, Meng, Hu, & Yao, ; Guo et al, ; Li et al, , ; Liu, Li, Li, Wang, & Xue, ; Liu et al, ; Song, Zhang, Xu, Hang, & Jia, ; Wu, Liu, Bai, Lu, & Du, ; Wu, Yee, Jiang, & Cai, ; Zhao et al ., ). So far several methods have been reported for analysis of multiple constituents in rat following oral administration of Compound Danshen preparation (Lv et al, ; Wei et al, ), while they focused on characterization analysis of origin chemicals and metabolites.…”