“…Dencichine (b-N-oxalyl-L-a, b-diaminopropionic acid, b-ODAP), isolated from the roots of panax notoginseng, has a high medicinal value [ 2 ]. Dencichine has been reported to show beneficial effects against numerous diseases, such as dispersing stasis and hemostasis, improving platelet number, relieving swelling and pain, kidney diseases, neuroprotection, lowering blood glucose [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ] and rheumatic diseases [ 6 ]. Natural ingredients in plants are characterized by low concentration [ 7 ], the existence of multi-component mixtures, structural diversity and similarity, which pose great challenges to the separation and purification of natural ingredients [ 8 ].…”