RESUMO
High-speed counter-current chromatographic ( HSCCC ) method was successfully used to separate and purify prim-O-glucosylcimifugin and 5-0-methylvisammioside from Saposhnikovia divaricata(Thicz. ) Schis-chk. ,a traditional Chinese herb,with a solvent system composed of ethyl acetate-n-butanol-water(2:7:9,V/V). The lower phase of the system was used as the mobile phase at the flow rate of 2.0 mL/min,and the upper phase was used as the stationary phase. The separation produced a total 13.9 mg prim-O-glucosylcimifugin and 25.0 mg 5-0-methylvisammioside with the purity of 98. 1% and 99.2% determined by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) from 316 mg of crude sample from S. divaricata. The structures of isolated compounds were identified by ESI-MS,~1H NMR and ~(13)C NMR.