The invention relates to a recrystallization purification method of milrinone, belonging to the field of active pharmaceutical ingredient refinement. The method comprises the following steps: adding a mixed solvent into a milrinone crude product, slowly heating, dissolving, adding activated carbon for decolorization, and carrying out vacuum filtration while the solution is hot to remove the activated carbon; cooling the filtrate to room temperature while slowly stirring, crystallizing, carrying out vacuum filtration, washing the filter cake with ethanol, and drying to obtain a white-like crystal; and adding the mixed solvent into the white-like crystal, slowly heating until all the white-like crystal is dissolved, cooling to room temperature while slowly stirring, and crystallizing to obtain a white crystal which is the purified milrinone with the content of up to 99.90%. The mixed solvent composed of water, ethanol and DMF (N,N-dimethylformamide) is utilized for filtration and purification, thereby comprehensively satisfying the requirements for solvent consumption, crystallinity and content. The product provided by the invention has obviously better appearance (such as crystallinity and color) than the product in the prior art.