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OBJECTIVE:To establish a method for the content determination of apigenin and piperine in the water extract as well as eucalyptol and cumin aldehyde in the volatile oil of Mongolian medicine Sugmel- 3 decoction. METHODS :HPLC method was adopted for the content determination of apigenin and piperine. GC method was used for the content determination of eucalyptol and cumin aldehyde. The determination of HPLC method was performed on Agilent Eclipse XDB-C 18 column with mobile phase consisted of methanol- 0.1% phosphoric acid aqueous solution at flow rate of 1.0 mL/min;the detection wavelength was set at 225 nm(apigenin)and 342 nm(piperine);the column temperature was set at 30 ℃ with sample size of 10 μL. The determination of GC method was performed on Dimensions SH-Rtx- 1 capillary column with high-purity hydrogen as carrier gas ; the injector temperature was set at 270 ℃,with flow rate of carrier gas 1 mL/min by temperature programmed ;the sample size was 1 μL,and split ratio was 1 ∶ 10. RESULTS:The linear ranges of apigenin ,piperine,eucalyptol and cumin aldehyde were 12.5-200 μg/g/mL(r=0.999 6),87.3-139.7 μg/mL(r=0.999 9),136-2 187 μg/mL(r=0.999 9),39-635 μg/mL(r=0.999 9), respectively. The quantitation limits were 0.02,0.06,0.06,0.12 μg/mL,respectively. The detection limits were 0.01,0.02,0.03, 0.04 μg/mL. RSDs of precision,stability and reproducibility tests were all less than 4%. The recovery rates of the samples were 89.26% -97.26%(RSD=2.69% ,n=6),94.20% -104.01%(RSD=3.64% ,n=6),98.51% -110.11%(RSD=3.87% ,n=6), 95.76%-107.82%(RSD=4.12%,n=6),respectively. The contents of above components were 0.769-0.828,7.741-7.981,5.284 7- 5.846 6,1.038 6-1.101 2 mg/g(n=3). CONCLUSIONS:The established method is simple and feasible ,and can be used for quality control of different parts of Mongolian medicine Sugmel- 3 decoction.