The invention provides a preparation method of an ease powder antidepressant extractive, which comprises the steps of: weighing radix bupleuri, angelica sinensis, poria cocos, white paeony root, bighead atractylodes rhizome, radix glycyrrhizae preparata, mentha haplocalyx and ginger according to the weight preparation of the prescription of the ease powder; and reflowing and extracting by adding ethyl acetate, filtering, and drying to obtain the ease powder extractive. Compared with the ease powder compound, the ease powder antidepressant extractive is relatively clear and definite in chemical constituents, stable in technology, controllable in quality, lower in dosage, higher in medicine compliance, and convenient to store and transport. Compared with the patent application 201010110283.7, the ease powder antidepressant extractive is equal in antidepressant activity, simplified in technology, observably short in production cost and time, and green and environment-friendly in the use of dissolvent, and convenient to realize the industrialize most importantly. The analysis shows that the extractive mainly comprises the chemical constituents such as ligustilide, butenolide I, butenolide II, butenolide III, palmitic acid and the like. The preparation method is simple in technology, and is controllable in extractive quantity; and the dissolvent is safe to a human body, and is suitable for industrial production.