The invention relates to high-purity
liquiritin prepared from glycyrrhizic acid
powder and a preparation method thereof, and the method comprises the following main steps: taking the glycyrrhizic acid
powder, adding an appropriate amount of dilute
ammonia water for
dissolution, filtering, adding an appropriate amount of
organic solvent for extraction, concentrating the upper layer of an extraction liquid and getting a
liquid extract of total flavonoids of liquoric root; taking the
liquid extract of the total flavonoids of the liquoric root, adding an appropriate amount of water, stirring, dissolving, filtering, enabling a filtrate to pass through a
polyamide column, firstly using an appropriate amount of water for eluting and removing water-soluble impurities, further using an
alcohol solution with a certain concentration for eluting, collecting the eluate, performing vacuum concentration, placing, crystallizing, and getting a crude product of the
liquiritin; taking the crude product of the
liquiritin, adding an appropriate amount of
solvent, dissolving, filtering, placing, crystallizing, filtering,
drying, and getting the high-purity liquiritin; and adopting the high-performance
liquid phase chromatography for determination, wherein the content range of the liquiritin is 80-95%. The liquiritin produced through the technical scheme provided by the invention has high purity, low cost, stable and controllable quality, and low requirement on equipment and is applicable to industrial production.