The invention discloses a green extraction process for
artemisinin, and relates to the field of
drug production. The process comprises the following steps: (1)
drying of raw materials, that is, putting the raw materials into
drying equipment for
drying; (2) primary
processing of
artemisinin, that is, putting the dried raw materials into an extraction tank, adding
petroleum ether, heating the extraction tank, carrying out countercurrent extraction, allowing the extract to flow out from the extraction tank, standing the extract to obtain a supernatant, allowing the supernatant to pass through asilica gel column, eluting the
silica gel column with
petroleum ether, collecting
artemisinin fractions, putting the artemisinin fractions into a concentrating tank for concentration until crystals are precipitated, putting the obtained concentrate into a crystallizing tank for
crystallization, carrying out filtering to obtain crystals, and drying the crystals so as to obtain crude products of artemisinin; (3) refining of artemisinin, that is, dissolving the crude products of artemisinin in an
alcohol precipitating tank with
ethanol, wherein the
ethanol with a concentration of 93 to 95% is 65to 75 times the amount of the crude products, standing the solution, taking the supernatant of the solution for secondary filter, concentrating the filtrate in the concentrating tank, standing the concentrate for
crystallization, carrying out filtering to obtain crystals, and drying the crystals under vacuum so as to obtain refined products of artemisinin.