<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Omar A. Aldulaimi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wen W. Li</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fingerprint Of Tiger Balm® By Thermal Desorption Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pharmacognosy Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Camphor</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">GC-MS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Menthol.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">TD GC-MS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tiger Balm®</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">February 2016</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">230-233</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction: &lt;/strong&gt;Tiger Balm&lt;sup&gt;&amp;reg; &lt;/sup&gt;is a blend of volatile oils used for many years in control of muscle cramps and headache. &lt;strong&gt;Objectives: &lt;/strong&gt;To establish a quick and accurate method of analysis for Tiger Balm&lt;sup&gt;&amp;reg;&lt;/sup&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Materials and Methods:&lt;/strong&gt; GC-MS and TD GC-MS were used in parallel to define the metabolites available in Tiger Balm&lt;sup&gt;&amp;reg;&lt;/sup&gt; blend, high quality standards were help in confirmation of the metabolites identities. &lt;strong&gt;Results: &lt;/strong&gt;TD GC-MS was more&amp;nbsp;efficient in showing the 1:1 relative abundance of camphor and menthol&amp;nbsp;which can be taken as a chemical marker of this herbal medicine.&lt;strong&gt; Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;In this work we applied efficiently the use of TD GC-MS in quality&amp;nbsp;analysis of semisolid herbal medicine with volatile scents without the&amp;nbsp;need of tedious pre-treatment with organic solvents, which is required&amp;nbsp;by using GC-MS.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original Article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">230</style></section><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Omar A. Aldulaimi&lt;sup&gt;1,2*&lt;/sup&gt; and Wen-Wu Li&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;Guy Hilton Research Centre, Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Thornburrow Drive, ST4 7QB, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;Department of Pharmacognosy and Medicinal Plants, College of Pharmacy, Al-Mustansiriyah University, IRAQ.&lt;/p&gt;
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