The invention relates to a method for separating and extracting
cepharanthine, which comprises the following steps of: taking a dry
stephania tuberous root, crushing, adding 2 to 3L of water and 0.5 to 5ml of mixed bio-
enzyme liquid into each
kilogram of crushed material, soaking for 1 hour, adding 9 to 11L of 1 to 2
mass percent
aqueous solution of HCL, heating to 90DEG C, and soaking for 3 hours; and separating out a liquid
medicine, adding 9 to 11L of 1 to 2 percent
aqueous solution of HCL into dregs, decocting for 3 hours, filtering, mixing filtrate, adsorbing by adopting a cation exchange column or cation
cellulose column, enriching the
cepharanthine, eluting by using solution that
sodium hydroxide is added into 60 to 90 percent
aqueous solution of
ethanol until the saturation state as eluent, collecting eluent of a
cepharanthine section, regulating the pH value to be 7, concentrating for recovering
ethanol, filtering, dissolving a precipitate by using absolute
ethanol, eluting and purifying by using an anion column, collecting eluent of a cepharanthine section, concentrating, crystallizing, and
drying to obtain the cepharanthine. The method has the advantages of simple operation,
light pollution, low cost, high yield, high purity of cepharanthine, and suitability for industrial production.