“…Heatmap was further constructed to reveal the relationships among the samples (Figure 3 (2), calycosin-7-glucoside (3), liquiritigenin (4), ononin (5), astraisoflavan-7-O-β-D-glucoside (6), calycosin (7), cinnamic acid (8), formononetin (9), 10-dimethoxymedicarpin (10), 7,2 0 -dihydroxy-3 0 ,4 0 -dimethoxyisoflavan (11), glycyrrhetinic acid (12), gallic acid (13), 7,2 0dihydroxy-3 0 ,4 0 -dimethoxyisoflavane-7-O-glucoside (14), astragaloside IV (15), astragaloside III (16), astragaloside II (17) In previous reports, methods applied to ensure quality control of HQJZ had apparent limitations in that they could determine only one or two components. Besides, the analysis was very difficult to perform in order to investigate the intrinsic quality of HQJZ, while also insufficient to reveal the complexity and synergic effect of this formula (Liu, Cui, Hu, Du, & Qin, 2017). In this study, analytes with special biological activities were selected to evaluate the quality of the formula.…”