The invention discloses a method for separating
cucurbitacin B from muskmelon vines by virtue of catalytic reaction. The method comprises the following steps: an extraction process, namely taking 1 part of the muskmelon vines, soaking by using
ethanol, performing
reflux extraction, and filtering and concentrating an extracting solution to obtain an extract; the catalytic reaction, namely adding concentrated
hydrochloric acid into the extract, then adding
ferric trichloride hexahydrate, stirring and reacting, cooling to the
room temperature, filtering, performing
water rinsing, and
drying; a refining process, namely stirring and dissolving a crude product by using
ethyl acetate, then adding
activated carbon, decoloring, concentrating to a small volume, and standing overnight to perform
crystallization; a recrystallization process, namely dissolving a like fine product by using
ethanol, filtering and concentrating to a small volume while hot, standing overnight to perform
crystallization, and filtering; and putting the fine product in a
vacuum drying box, and
drying for 8 hours to obtain a
cucurbitacin B fine product. The method disclosed by the invention is wide in
raw material source and low in production cost, and can be used for reducing the damages of an acid environment to
cucurbitacin B; the
production rate reaches more than 60%, the purity is more than 99.0%, and the
wastewater BOD (
biochemical oxygen demand) is less than 100; the method is suitable for the industrial production of recycling water, and can be widely applied to
plant extraction industries.