The invention provides a method for extracting protein from cotton leaves. The method comprises the following steps of 1) grinding the cotton leaves; 2) transferring the ground leaves powder to a centrifugal pipe, adding trichloroacetic acid extraction liquid, uniformly mixing, and storing the mixture in a refrigerator with the temperature of -20 DEG C for more than 2h; 3) centrifuging in the centrifugal pipe, removing the supernatant, retaining the precipitate, adding acetone solution pre-cooled at the temperature of -20DEG C into the precipitate, uniformly mixing, and standing for 2h to 4h at the temperature of -20DEG C; 4) centrifuging in the centrifugal pipe, removing the supernatant, retaining the precipitate, washing the precipitate, and retaining the precipitate; 5) vacuumizing the precipitate, and volatizing acetone to obtain dry protein powder; 6) adding protein lysate into the dry protein powder, disintegrating for 1h in the water bath with temperature being 35DEG C, centrifuging, and taking the supernatant which is the cotton leave protein dissolved liquid. By adopting the method for extracting the protein from the cotton leaves, the extracted protein is stable, the repeatability is good, the purity of the protein is high, and the electrophoretogram show that no grain phenomena such as the cross stripes and streaking appear.