“…In addition, calycosin was not detected in rat plasma, probably resulting from its strong phase II metabolism in liver. It was often found that high levels of phase II metabolites circulated in blood with trace amounts of aglycone in the pharmacokinetic profiles of isoflavones (Bai, Qu, Lu, Kano, & Yuan, ; Hosoda, Furuta, & Ishii, ; Qu et al, ; Tian et al, ; Wang, Gong, et al, ; Yuan et al, ; Zhang, Qi, Xu, Kano, & Yuan, ). Considerably different pharmacokinetics of CAG and calycosin have been published in the literature after rats were treated with TCM consisting of Huangqi (Liu et al, ; Liu et al, ; Shaw et al, ; Shi et al, ; Tao, Huang, Yang, Li, & Cai, ; Zeng et al, ; Zhang, Yang, Lin, & Hu, ).…”