OBJECTIVE: To establish a method for simultaneous determination of 3 components in Li’ermian capsule, including berberine hydrochloride, palmatine hydrochloride and cinnamaldehyde. METHODS: HPLC method was adopted. The determination was performed on Agilent Zorbax SB-C18 with mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile-0.05 mol/L potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution (23 ∶ 77, V/V) at the flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. The detection wavelengths were set at 345 nm (0-20 min, berberine hydrochloride, palmatine hydrochloride) and 290 nm (>20-30 min, cinnamaldehyde), and column temperature was 30 ℃. The sample size was 10 μL. RESULTS: The linear ranges of berberine hydrochloride, palmatine hydrochloride and cinnamaldehyde were 0.036 80-0.736 0, 0.016 76-0.335 2, 0.004 140-0.082 80 μg (r≥0.999 5). The limits of detection were 0.110 4, 0.050 3,0.124 2 ng, and the limits of quantitation were 0.368 0, 0.167 6, 0.414 0 ng, respectively. RSDs of precision, stability (12 h) and reproducibility tests were all lower than 2.0% (n=6). The recoveries were 96.16%-99.73% (RSD=0.99%-1.21%, n=6). CONCLUSIONS: Established method is simple, reproducible and suitable for simultaneous determination of 3 components such as berberine hydrochloride in Li’ermian capsule.