OBJECTIVE: To establish a method for the simultaneous determination of shikonin, acetylshikonin and β,β-dimethylacrylshikonin in Arnebia euchroma. METHODS: RP-HPLC method was adopted. The determination was performed on Kromasil 100-5 C18 column with mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile-0.1% formic acid solution(80 ∶ 20,V/V) at the flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. The detection wavelength was set at 516 nm, column temperature was 25 ℃, and sample size was 10 μL. RESULTS: The linear ranges of shikonin, acetylshikonin and β,β-dimethylacrylshikonin were 0.404-10.100 μg/mL(r=0.999 8), 5.350-107.000 μg/mL(r=0.999 6), 2.035-40.700 μg/mL(r=0.999 8), respectively. The limit of quantitation was 0.40,2.91,1.34 μg/mL, and the limit of detection was 0.12,0.87,0.40 μg/mL. RSDs of precision, stability and reproducibility tests were all lower than 2.0% (n=6). The recovery rate were 99.12%-104.18%(RSD=1.85%,n=6),96.51%-100.21%(RSD=1.43%,n=6), 98.11%-102.51% (RSD=1.42%,n=6), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The method is simple, precise, stable and reproducible. It can be used for simultaneous determination of shikonin, acetylshikonin and β,β-dimethylacrylshikonin in A. euchroma.