AIM To establish an inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry(ICP-MS) method for the content determination of Na, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, V, Cr, Co, Ga, As, Se, Rb, Sr, Ag, Cd, Cs, Ba, Tl, Pb, U and Hg in Polygonati odorati Rhizoma and Polygonati Rhizoma from different growing areas.METHODS Forty batches of samples were digested by microwave, after which ICP-MS was applied to determining the contents of various inorganic elements, whose spectra were drawn, principal component analysis(PCA) and orthogonal partial least squares discriminant model analysis(OPLS-DA) were used for mul...