The invention relates to an extraction technology of
artemisinin, and belongs to the technical field of natural
plant extraction. The extraction technology comprises the following steps: (1)
drying raw materials: putting the raw materials in a
drying facility to dry the raw materials; (2) primary preparation of
artemisinin: putting the dried raw materials in an extraction tank, adding
petroleum ether into the extraction tank, heating, carrying out
reflux extraction, discharging the
liquid extract from the extraction tank after the
reflux extraction, allowing the
liquid extract to stand still for a while, collecting the supernate, making the supernate go through a
silica gel column, then washing the
silica gel column by
petroleum ether, collecting the fractions containing
artemisinin, transferring the fractions to a condensing tank, condensing the fractions, transferring the condensed liquid to a
crystallization tank when the liquid in the condensing tank start to crystallize, carrying out
crystallization in the
crystallization tank, filtering to obtain the crystals, and
drying the crystals so as to obtain crude artemisinin; (3) artemisinin refinement: placing the crude artemisinin in an
alcohol-
precipitation tank, dissolving the crude artemisinin by
ethanol with a concentration of 85-95%, wherein the volume of the
ethanol is 60 to 70 times of that of the crude artemisinin, allowing the solution to stand still for a while, collecting the supernate, subjecting the supernate to fine
filtration, transferring the filtrate to a condensing tank, condensing the filtrate, allowing the condensed filtrate to stand still so as to carry out crystallization, filtering to obtain the crystals, and finally drying the crystals in vacuum so as to obtain refined artemisinin.