Abstract:A reversedphase high performance liquid chromatographic mothed was developed for the determina-tion of berberine in Cortex Phellodendri using a bonded phase column(Zorbax C8) with diazepam as the internal stan-dard.The column temperature was 25 C.The mobile phatse was a mixture of acetonitrile-water(35:65,containing30mmol/L H3PO4) with a flow rate of lml/min.Berberine was detected by UV absorption at 346nm. The standardcurve was linear in the range of 0.14 to 2.0μg. The recovery was 101.7% and RSI) 1.83%.