The invention provides a method that effectively stops and restrains the active ingredients of desertliving cistanche from serious degrading or losing caused by enzyme catalytic reaction initiated during the processing, drying and production technology processes by adopting an improved drying processing manner of the desertliving cistanche. The method is characterized in that: microwave is used for heating and sterilizing enzyme at high temperature, polar molecules contained in the meat stalk cell of fresh desertliving cistanche that is rich in water are led to make high frequency swing, vibration and friction and extrusion between the molecules by using a microwave high frequency electric field so as to lead the temperature inside the cell of the desertliving cistanche and the surface thereof to raise rapidly, thus generating thermal effect that has the function of enzyme sterilization and decoction pieces of the desertliving cistanche is dried rapidly by adopting microwave drying technology, thus effectively preserving the content of the active ingredients of phenylethanoid glycosides, etc. that is rich in the meat stalk of the fresh desertliving cistanche and greatly promoting the quality and medical value of the prepared decoction pieces of the desertliving cistanche. Upon analysis and determination, the content of the active ingredients of the phenylethanoid glycosides, etc. contained in the prepared decoction pieces, which is in the shapes of filiform, elongated flake or granular, of the desertliving cistanche is rich, the content of the main index ingredients of echinacoside and verbascoside monomeric compounds of the prepared decoction pieces of the desertliving cistanche, which used for weighing the quality thereof, is up to 13-24.1 percent (being calculated based on dry substance) and the water content thereof is 1.2-3.8 percent.