OBJECTIVE: To optimize the technology conditions of water-soluble chitosan on Huang’e gel water extract solution. METHODS: Using the comprehensive scores of transmittance ratio, impurity removal rate, naringin retention rate as indexes, Box-Behnken response surface method was used to optimize the amount of water-soluble chitosan, shocking time and temperature in clarifying technology, and verification test was conducted. RESULTS: The clarification effect was the best when the volume ratio of TCM extract solution with proportion ≥1.3 to amount of 0.01 g/mL water-soluble chitosan was 2.2, shocking for 100 min at 70 ℃. In the verification test, the average transmittance ratio was 87.3%, impurity removal rate was 41.5%, and naringin retention rate was 131.38%. The measured values of comprehensive scores were 97.35%, 98.92% and 98.04%, showing relative error of -0.87%, 0.73% and -0.16% with the predicted values (98.27%), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The method can effectively optimize the clarification technology parameters of water-soluble chitosan on Huang’e gel water extract solution.