Testing of General Properties of Herbal Medicines

Any herb has a specific appearance trait due to the genetics of the species. Trait testing is an integral part of herb identification, and there is a correlation between the external characteristics of the herb and its internal quality. Because of the importance of herbal trait testing in ensuring the safety and efficacy of medicines, Lifeasible can provide herbal trait identification services to help you determine the authenticity of herbs and obtain specific information about your target herbs.

The introduction of computer technology and digital and pictorial output of results allows us to provide identification characteristics that are no longer subjective, abstract qualitative descriptions but objective, digital indicators, or visual, realistic color maps. And we combine our identification work with histochemical localization techniques so that macroscopic trait identification is linked to microscopic chemical composition analysis. We provide identification results that directly reflect the intrinsic quality of the herbs.

Herb odor characterization detection

• Taste chips

We offer this method to analyze and identify single or mixed herbal extracts, which can be used to measure ions and non-volatile substances in liquids. With high sensitivity and reproducibility, it is an accurate and reliable taste detection tool that can objectively reflect the taste characteristics of the sample.

• Bionic olfactory system

This method is easy to use, fast, accurate, and sensitive, does not require sample pre-processing, and allows nondestructive analysis of herbal samples. Not only can we identify different species of herbs but also different levels of freshness of the same class of herbal materials.

Histochemical localization

Chemical components are the material basis of herbal medicine for disease prevention and treatment, and these components are stored in specific tissues and cellular structures. We can perform histochemical localization of specific chemical components in the target species to help you elucidate the relationship between certain trait characteristics of herbs (e.g., the wood-to-bark ratio of root herbs) and the quality and efficacy of herbal medicines by studying the distribution of active components among different tissues.

Computer image detection

We use computer systems to analyze images to achieve human-like visual system understanding. Our services mainly include correction, structural analysis, measurement, feature extraction, identification, and analysis of a given image by applying computer technology to the image for different purposes. In herbal medicine, microscopic identification, we provide computer image analysis technology that can replace the tedious morphological measurements performed manually, improve efficiency, and provide more accurate and objective data to describe and standardize microscopic features observed from the pictures. Various microscopic features are quantified into digital features, and the features of different herbs are classified and identified by computer systems.

Herb traits are not only the physical characteristics of the herb but also the external expression of the internal structure of the herb and its chemical composition. Lifeasible is committed to helping our clients to study the scientific content of herbal trait identification and to interpret the correlation between trait characteristics and the internal organization and chemical composition of herbs with modern science. Please feel free to contact us to submit your request.

• Testing of Physical Properties of Herbal Medicines
• Testing of Herbal Leachate
• Quick Identification of Herbal Medicine Mixing Uniformity