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Objective To establish a method for the determination of patchouli alcohol in Huoxiang Qingwei Tablets by gas chromatography (GC).Methods HP- 5 column( 30 m? 0.32 mm? 0.25 ? m) was used and 5 % crosslinked phenyl polydimethyl siloxane was used as the mobile phase. The increase of column temperature was controlled by programming: the initial temperature was 150 ℃ and maintained for 23 min, and then rose at 8 ℃ /min up to 230 ℃ for 2 min. The injector temperature and the detector temperature both were 280 ℃ .The flow rate was 0.9 mL/min and the injection volume was 1 ? L, split ratio was 5∶ 1.Result A good linearity was obtained in the range of 0.057～ 1.140 mg/mL,r=0.9994. The average recovery was 99.38 % with a RSD of 1.82 % (n=5). Conclusion The method is simple and accurate and can be used for the quality control of Huoxiang Qingwei Tablets.