简介：Si-Miao-Wan(SMW),atradiationalChinesemedicinalformulaconsistingofAtractylodisRhizoma,PhellodendriChinensisCortex,CoicisSemen,andAchyranthisBidentataeRadix,hasbeenusedforthetreatmentofgoutandgoutyarthritisformanyyears.Inthepresentstudy,aliquidchromatographyquadrupole-time-of-flightmassspectrometry(LC-Q-TOF/MS)methodwasestablishedtoidentifythemultipleconstituentsofSMWanditsmetabolitesinratbiologicalsamplesafteroraladministration.Atotalof48compoundsinSMW,including21alkaloids,12organicacids,2terpenes,3lactones,2phytosterols,and8othercompounds,weretentativelycharacterizedwiththediagnostic-ionfilteringstrategy.BasedonthediagnosticionsappliedtoidentifycompoundsinSMW,28prototypecompoundsand10metaboliccompoundsweredetectedinthebiologicalsamples.ThiswasthefirstcomprehensivedrugmetabolisminvestigationofSMWinrats.Thedevelopedmethodcouldbeausefulmeansforidentifyingthemulti-componentsinSMWandthemetaboliccomponents.TheresultsmayhelpexplorethepossiblemetabolicprocessesandmechanismofactionforSMWinvivo.