OBJECTIVE: To establish the method for simultaneous determination of the content of berberine hydrochloride,baicalin and osthole in Jinchan zhiyang capsules. METHODS: HPLC method was adopted. The determination was performed in Hypersil BDS C18 column with mobile phase consisted of methanol-acetonitrile-0.1% phosphoric acid-three triethylamine (50 ∶ 30 ∶ 19 ∶ 1,V/V/V/V) at the flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. The detection wavelengths were set at 265 nm (berberine hydrochloride), 280 nm (baicalin) and 322 nm (osthole). The column temperature was set at 30 ℃, and sample size was 10 μL. RESULTS: The linear range of berberine hydrochloride, baicalin and osthole were 80-800 ng(r=0.999 8), 60-600 ng(r=0.999 9), 60-600 ng(r=0.999 6), respectively. RSDs of precision, stability and reproducibility tests were all lower than 2.0%. The limits of quantitation were 80,60,60 ng, respectively, and the limits of detection were 24,20,20 ng, respectively. The recovery rates were 97.4%-98.3%(RSD=0.33%,n=6), 98.4%-99.6%(RSD=0.42%,n=6) and 96.9%-99.0%(RSD=0.92%,n=6), respectively. RSDs of durability tests were all lower than 1.2%. CONCLUSIONS: The method is simple, accurate, precise, stable, reproducible and durable. It can be used for simultaneous determination of berberine hydrochloride,baicalin and osthole in Jinchan zhiyang capsules.