The invention discloses a method for detecting
ephedrine additives doped in weight-losing traditional Chinese medicines. The method comprises the following steps: carrying out
thin layer chromatography on weight-losing traditional Chinese medicines to be detected; dropwise adding a surface reinforcing agent at the four positions with Rf values being 0.30-0.33, 0.34-0.36, 0.37-0.39 and 0.50-0.53, and scanning the four positions by adopting a portable raman
spectrometer to obtain four original surface enhanced raman spectrograms, when the four original surface enhanced raman spectrograms are blank spectrograms, determining that the weight-losing traditional Chinese medicines to be detected do not contain
ephedrine additives, and when the four original surface enhanced raman spectrograms contain non-blank spectrograms,
processing the non-blank spectrograms to obtain preprocessed surface enhanced raman spectrograms; and when the preprocessed surface enhanced raman spectrograms contain at least five absorption peaks of
ephedrine additives, determining that the weight-losing traditional Chinese medicines are doped with ephedrine additives, otherwise, determining that the weight-losing traditional Chinese medicines do not contain the ephedrine additives. According to the method, the technical solution has high accuracy,
field detection can be implemented, a reference substance is not needed, the application range is wide, the operation is simple, and the cost is relatively low.