The invention discloses 
emodin as an inhibitor of activated molecules p-Akt and p-mTOR of a PI3K / Akt / mTOR 
signal transduction pathway and application thereof, wherein the 
emodin is a purely natural 
anthraquinone monomer compound extracted from rhubarb as a 
Chinese traditional medicine and has multiple biologic activities such as anti-microbes, anti-
inflammation, antioxidation, 
immune regulation, liver protection and the like. The invention finds that after 
acute leukemia multidrug-resistance cells HL-60 / ADR, 
acute promyelocytic leukemia retinoic acid drug-resistant cells MR2 as well as corresponding sensitive cells NB4 and 
acute leukemia primary cells are acted by the rhubarb, key 
signal activated molecules of the PI3K / Akt / mTOR 
signal transduction pathway, particularly p-Akt and p-mTOR, are inhabited with specificity; 
in vivo researches verify that after the 
emodin is dosed, all the key activated molecules p-Akt, p-p65 and p-mTOR of the PI3K / Akt / mTOR 
signal pathway in 
acute leukemia nude mouse transplanted 
tumor tissue protein are expressed and downwards regulated, which indicates that the emodin can be used as a novel targeting inhibitor for PI3K / Akt / mTOR 
signal transduction activated molecules, particularly p-Akt and p-mTOR, and is applied to treating malignant tumors of a blood 
system.