Tsai Sam-Hip. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-60). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / Contents --- p.iv / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- Basic theory of infrared spectroscopy --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- History Chinese herbal drugs --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- Identification of Chinese herbal drugs using traditional methods --- p.6 / Chapter 1.4 --- Identification of Chinese herbal drugs by spectral fingerprinting method --- p.8 / Chapter 1.5 --- Objectives of this research --- p.10 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- "Extraction and identification of Chinese herbal drugs using the ""Effective Peaks Matching"" method" / Chapter 2.1 --- Experimental --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2 --- Results and Discussions --- p.21 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Identification of Chinese herbal drugs using point-to-point spectral comparison method / Chapter 3.1 --- Experimental --- p.28 / Chapter 3.2 --- Results and Discussions --- p.34 / Conclusion --- p.55 / References --- p.56 / Appendices / Chapter A1 --- "VBA programs for the ""Effective Peaks Matching"" method" --- p.61 / Chapter A2 --- "VBA programs for ""point-to-point"" comparison method" --- p.74 / Chapter A3 --- Original spectra for database building --- p.79