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OBJECTIVE:To establish a method for the simultaneous determination of paeoniflorin,cinnamaldehyde,psoralen and isopsoralen in Yaotong capsules.METHODS:HPLC method was adopted.The determination was performed on Agilent-C18 column with mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile-water (gradient elution) at the flow rate of 1.0 mL/min.The detection wavelengths were set at 240 nm (paeoniflorin,psoralen,isopsoralen) and 290 nm (cinnamaldehyde).The column temperature was 35 ℃,and sample size was 10 μL.RESULTS:The linear ranges of paeoniflorin,cinnamaldehyde,psoralen and isopsoralen were 0.004 02-0.100 6 mg/mL(r=0.999 8),0.024 50-0.612 7 mg/mL(r=0.999 8),0.005 24-0.131 0 mg/mL(r=0.999 9),0.005 11-0.127 8 mg/mL(r=0.999 9),respectively.LOQ were 37.17,1.47,21.76,25.57 ng,respectively;LOD were 11.15,0.44,6.53,7.67 ng,respectively.RSDs of precision,stability and reproducibility tests were all lower than 2.0％.The recoveries were 99.02％-100.83％ (RSD=0.68％,n=6),98.58％-100.99％ (RSD=0.83％,n=6),99.78％-101.69％ (RSD=0.89％,n=6),100.06％-102.46％ (RSD=0.92％,n=6),respectively.CONCLUSIONS:The method is simple,accurate and suitable for simultaneous determination of paeoniflorin,cinnamaldehyde,psoralen and isopsoralen in Yaotong capsules.