The invention provides a method for preparing high-purity beta-
Elemene from natural plants containing beta-
Elemene such as
curcuma zedoary (root tubers or stem tubers of the
curcuma zedoary),
Cymbopogon citratus (fresh leaves of the
Cymbopogon citrates),
Solidago virgaurea (roots, stems, leaves, flowers and seeds of the
Solidago virgaurea) and the like so as to improve production efficiency from the initial raw materials to the high-purity beta-
Elemene and reduce production cost. Compared with the prior art, the method is mainly characterized in that: the roots, stems, leaves, flowers and seeds of the natural plants are taken as raw materials, and volatile oil of specific parts of the natural plants is prepared by methods for extracting different volatile oil, and then is rectified by a rectification method to prepare high-content beta-Elemene; then
impurity components are removed by an
ethanol extraction method and a
silver nitrate complexing extraction method; finally the beta-Elemene with the content between 95.0 and 99.9 percent is prepared by
distillation under reduced pressure; and the beta-Elemene not only can be prepared into oral administrative preparations such as
emulsion oral liquid, capsules and the like, but also can be prepared into parenteral administrative preparations such as
emulsion parenteral solution, injection, cutaneous permeable agents,
lung spray preparations, suppositories and the like. The method has novel design of
experimental methods, simple instruments and equipment, concise operation steps and obviously shortened
operation time, improves production efficiency and is suitable for industrial production.