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However, there would be serious adverse toxicity effects after systemic administration of yuanhuacine, such as by oral and intravenous ways. In order to achieve better curative effect and to alleviate the adverse toxicity effects, we tried to deliver yuanhuacine directly into the lungs. Ultra high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC\u2013MS\/MS) was used to detect the analyte and IS. After extraction (ether:dichloromethane = 8:1), the analyte and IS were separated on a Waters BEH-C18 column (100 mm \u00d7 2.1 mm, 1.7 \u03bcm) under a 5 min gradient elution using a mixture of acetonitrile and 0.1% formic acid aqueous solution as mobile phase at a flow rate of 0.3 mL\/min. ESI positive mode was chosen for detection. The method was fully validated for its selectivity, accuracy, precision, stability, matrix effect, and extraction recovery. 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