OBJECTIVE:To establish a method for the contents determination of paeoniflorin, hesperidin, baicalin, palmatine, berberine, glycyrrhizic acid, magnolol in Xianglian huazhi pill. METHODS: HPLC was conducted on the column of Agilent Porlshell 120 SB-C18 with mobile phase of 90% acetonitrile (A)-0.1% phosphoric acid 5% aqueous acetonitrile (B) (gradient elution) at a flow rate 1.0 ml/min, the column temperature was 30 ℃, the injection volume was 3 μl, and the detection wavelength was 230 nm for paeoniflorin (0-10.0 min), 283 nm for hesperidin (10.1-13.0 min), 277 nm for baicalin (13.1-14.4 min), 265 nm for palmatine and berberine (14.5-20 min), 250 nm for glycyrrhizic acid (20.1-25.0 min) and 290 nm for magnolol (25.1-60.0 min). RESULTS: The linear range was 0.013 88-0.694 5 μg for paeoniflorin, 0.039 93-1.996 8 μg for hesperidin, 0.070 08-0.389 3 μg for baicalin, 0.006 48-0.324 0 μg for palmatine(counted by palmatine hydrochloride),0.010 52-0.526 2 μg for berberine(counted by berberine hydrochloride),0.008 816-0.440 7 μg for glycyrrhizic acid(counted by ammonium glycyrrhizinate) and 0.007 224-0.361 2 μg for magnolol (r≥0.999 0); RSDs of precision, stability and reproducibility tests were lower than 2.0%; average recoveries were 97.47%-102.88%(RSD=1.91%,n=6),102.06%-102.81%(RSD=0.25%,n=6),97.91%-100.80% (RSD=1.25%,n=6),97.53%-101.60%(RSD=1.66%,n=6),97.54%-100.68%(RSD=1.15%,n=6),96.23%-99.00%(RSD=1.11%,n=6) and 97.91%-101.44%(RSD=1.36%,n=6), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The method is simple, rapid and accurate, and can be used for the quality control of Xianglian huazhi pill.