The invention discloses an aurone compound, and a preparation method and application thereof. The aurone compound is extracted from aromatic tobacco, the 4' site is acetyl, the structural formula is shown in the specification, and the aurone compound is named as 4'-acetyl-5-hydroxy-6-methoxy aurone. The preparation method of the aurone compound comprises the following steps: treating raw materials, performing ultrasonic extraction, performing silica gel column chromatography, separating through high pressure liquid chromatography, and performing gel column chromatography. The aurone compound is applicable to the preparation of medicaments for resisting leukemia cells and / or human breast cancer cells. The aurone compound disclosed by the invention is separated out from aromatic tobacco for the first time, and the molecular formula and structure of the aurone compound can be confirmed. According to the invention, ethanol is used as solvent, thereby causing less environmental pollution, and ensuring high safety and environment friendliness; and the compound is simple in structure and easy to artificially synthesize. The compound has obvious inhibiting effect on leukemia cells (NB4) and human breast cancer cells (MCF7), and the IC50 values are respectively 2.6mu M and 1.8mu M, thus indicating that the aurone compound can be used as a lead compound of anticancer medicaments.