OBJECTIVE To e stablish the fingerprint of Qings hen tiaozhi xiaoke tablets （QTXT）and carry out the analysis of chemical pattern recognition ，and determine the contents of seven active components simultaneously. METHODS Using coptisine hydrochloride as reference ，the Similarity Evaluation System for Chromatographic Fingerprint of TCM （2012 edition）was utilized to establish the HPLC fingerprints of 13 batches of QTXT and analyze their similarity. The common peaks were confirmed by comparing with the chromatogram of the mixed control ；the attribution of the common peak was determined by comparing the chromatograms of the sample solutions of single decoction pieces and negative sample solutions ；using SPSS 22.0 and SIMCA 14.1 software，cluster analysis （CA），principal component analysis （PCA）and orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis （OPLS-DA）were carried out ，and the markers affecting the quality of QTXT were screened ，using the variable importance in projection（VIP）value greater than 1 as the standard. Using coptisine hydrochloride as internal reference ，the contents of naringin ， hesperidin，neohesperidin，berberine hydrochloride ，palmatine hydrochloride and lovastatin were determined by quantitative analysis of multicomponents by single marker （QAMS），and then compared wi th the result s（except for coptisine hydrochloride ） of external standard method. RESULTS There were 17 Δ 基金项目：江苏省“双创团队”项目[No.（2018）2024号] ＊硕士研究生。研究方向：中药新药药学。E-mail：2769544062@ common peaks in 13 batches of QTXT ，and the similarity was qq.com 0.987-0.999. Seven chromatographic peaks were identified ， # 通信作者：副研究员，硕士生导师，博士。研究方向：中药药剂 namely naringin （peak 4）， hesperidin （peak 5）， 学。E-mail：tsliur411@sina.com neohesperidin（peak 6），coptisine hydrochloride （peak 8）， ·1204· China Pharmacy 2022Vol. 33 No. 10 中国药房 2022年第33卷第10期 palmatine hydrochloride （peak 9），berberine hydrochlo ride（peak 10），lovastatin（peak 14）. Peaks 7-10 were the exclusive peaks of Coptis chinensis ；peaks 3-6 and 11-13 were the exclusive peaks of bran-fried Fructus aurantii ；peak 14 was the exclusive peak of Monascus purpureus ；peak 1 was the common peak of C. chinensis and M. purpureus . Peak 2 and 15 were the common peak of bran-fried F. aurantii and M. purpureus ；peaks 16 and 17 were the common peaks of 6 traditional Chinese medicines. The results of CA showed that 13 batches of QTXT could be divided into three categories ，S2 was clustered into one category ，S1，S9，S10 were clustered into one category ，S3-S8 and S 11-S13 were clustered into one category. The results of PCA showed that accumulative variance contribution of the first three principal components was 85.120％. Compared with CA ，S1 was further distinguished from S9 and S 10 by PCA. OPLS-DA showed that 7 common peaks with VIP value greater than 1（from large to small ）were peak 10 （berberine hydrochloride ），peak 9（palmatine hydrochloride ），peak 5（hesperidin），peak 11 and peak 8（coptisine hydrochloride ）， peak 12 and peak 6（neohesperidin）. The contents of naringin ，hesperidin，neohesperidin，berberine hydrochloride ，palmatine hydrochloride and lovastatin measured by QAMS were 40.198-77.552，6.138-13.413，71.823-125.868，11.274-49.951，3.303- 5.367，1.821-3.185 mg/g，respectively. The contents of naringin ，hesperidin，neohesperidin，berberine hydrochloride ，coptisine hydrochloride，palmatine hydrochloride and lovastatin measured by external reference method were 41.454-79.976，6.404-13.993， 74.068-129.081，11.627-51.512，5.922-12.020，3.158-5.131 and 1.901-3.325 mg/g，respectively. The deviations of the two methods （except for coptisine hydrochloride ）were all less than 3.00％. CONCLUSIONS The established HPLC fingerprint and the method of QAMS are simple ，accurate and reproducible. Combined with chemical pattern recognition analysis ，it can be used for the quality evaluation of QTXT. Berberine hydrochloride ，palmatine hydrochloride and other components may be the markers affecting the quality of the drug.