OBJECTIVE: To develop a method for simultaneous determination of harpagide, harpagoside, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid and phillyrin in Xiaoer qingyan granules. METHODS: HPLC method was adopted. The determination was performed on Zorbax SB-C18 column with mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile-0.1% phosphoric acid solution (gradient elution) at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. The detection wavelength was set at 210 nm (0-13 min, harpagide), 327 nm (13-25 min, chlorogenic acid and caffeic acid), 277 nm (25-29 min, phillyrin), 210 nm (29-40 min, harpagosid); the column temperature was 30℃, and sample size was 10 μL. RESULTS: The linear ranges of harpagide, harpagosid, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid and phillyrin were 8.400-168.0 ng(r=0.999 6),11.30-226.0 ng (r=0.999 8), 128.8-257.6 ng (r=0.999 3), 8.110-162.2 ng(r=0.999 6),29.69-593.8 ng(r=0.999 4), respectively. LOQs of the 5 components were 33.39, 451.2, 515.2, 324.5, 1 188 ng/mL; LODs were 8.348, 112.8, 128.8, 81.12, 297.0 ng/mL, respectively; RSDs of precision, stability and reproducibility tests were all lower than 2.0%. The recoveries were 96.39%-98.64%(RSD=0.83%,n=6), 96.60%-98.89%(RSD=0.89%,n=6), 96.28%-99.22%(RSD=1.25%,n=6), 96.49%-99.54%(RSD=1.16%,n=6), 96.26%-99.70%(RSD=1.30%,n=6), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The method is simple, accurate and suitable for simultaneous determination of 5 components in Xiaoer qingyan granules