The invention relates to the method for detecting the quality of senile cough and cough tablets. The method comprises the following steps: qualitatively distinguishing the active ingredients including radix astragaliseuhedysari, bighead atractylodes rhizome, radix saposhnikoviae, licoriceroot,herbaepimedii andfructuspsoralea in asenile cough and cough tabletpreparation by using a thin layer chromatography, and determining the contents of icariin, psoralen and isopsoralenin the preparation by a UPLC method. The detection method provided by the invention has the advantages of simplifying the sampling steps, having simple operation and high specificity, shortening the content determination time, simultaneously detecting multi-index components, having stabledetection baseline, good resolution, high detection accuracy and good stability, improving efficiency, and being relatively economic and environmentally friendly.