OBJECTIVE: To establish a method for the simultaneous determination of paeoniflorin, cinnamaldehyde, psoralen and isopsoralen in Yaotong capsules. METHODS:HPLC method was adopted. The determination was performed on Agilent-C18 column with mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile-water (gradient elution) at the flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. The detection wavelengths were set at 240 nm (paeoniflorin, psoralen, isopsoralen) and 290 nm (cinnamaldehyde). The column temperature was 35 ℃, and sample size was 10 μL. RESULTS: The linear ranges of paeoniflorin,cinnamaldehyde,psoralen and isopsoralen were 0.004 02- 0.100 6 mg/mL(r=0.999 8), 0.024 50-0.612 7 mg/mL(r=0.999 8),0.005 24-0.131 0 mg/mL(r=0.999 9),0.005 11-0.127 8 mg/mL(r=0.999 9), respectively. LOQ were 37.17, 1.47, 21.76, 25.57 ng, respectively; LOD were 11.15, 0.44, 6.53, 7.67 ng, respectively. RSDs of precision, stability and reproducibility tests were all lower than 2.0%. The recoveries were 99.02%-100.83%(RSD=0.68%,n=6), 98.58%-100.99%(RSD=0.83%,n=6),99.78%-101.69%(RSD=0.89%,n=6), 100.06%-102.46%(RSD=0.92%,n=6), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The method is simple, accurate and suitable for simultaneous determination of paeoniflorin, cinnamaldehyde, psoralen and isopsoralen in Yaotong capsules.