“…These methods have their own characteristics and scope of application, which has be discussed in the reference (Nie L et al, 2005). Generally, congruence coefficient and correlation coefficient (Jin Y. et al, 2008)was the workhorse of chemometrics in the similarity analysis of data sets. However, it has been aware that the (dis)similarities of the herbal objects have shortcomings (Liang, Y.-Z., et al, 2004;Christophe Tistaert et al, 2011): a reference fingerprint is necessary, but in many instances, the herbal medicines, selected for producing reference fingerprints, often do not have the best efficacy, which might influence the outcome.…”