Establishing high temperature gas chromatographic profiles of non-polar metabolites for quality assessment of African traditional herbal medicinal products

- Information rich HTGC/MS profiles can be obtained from dichloromethane extracts.
- HTGC/MS with chemometrics differentiate the two herbal products.
- Chemometrics evidence the differences in harvest date and location.
- Activated charcoal effectively removes chlorophyll from dichloromethane extracts.