白芍为中华人民共和国药典所收录的常用中药 ,具养血敛阴、柔肝止痛、平抑肝阳之功效。现代药理学实验证明白芍中所含的芍药甙具有解热、解痉、抗惊厥、抑制血小板凝聚等作用。本文采用薄层扫描法对炮制前后白芍中芍药甙的含量进行了测定 ,报道如下。1　实验材料　　样品 :白芍 White peony is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine included in the Pharmacopoeia of the People’s Republic of China. It has the effects of nourishing blood and accumulating yin, softening liver and relieving pain, and suppressing liver yang. Modern pharmacological experiments have shown that Paeoniflorin contained in Radix Paeoniae has antipyretic, antispasmodic, anticonvulsant, and platelet aggregation inhibitory effects. In this paper, the thin-layer scanning method was used to determine the content of paeoniflorin in the white peony before and after processing. The report is as follows. 1 Experimental material Sample : White peony