Conclusions
With the help of the analysis strategy, the present study effectively and rapidly analyzes the active ingredients of HL treating OA. The example in this research also verifies the feasibility of this strategy, which is of reference significance to the related studies of other herbal medicines. Meanwhile, the results also display the multi-compounds and multi-targets synergistic mode of action of herbal medicines and provide the important reference information for their basic researches and clinical applications. In addition, based on these results, we also propose that researchers should use an active ingredients group instead of a single compound to control the quality of herbal medicines according to the pathogenesis of different diseases.