The invention provides a method for determining the content of ginsenoside in a panax traditional Chinese medicine, which adopts an ultra-high performance liquid chromatography electrospray detector method to simultaneously determine the content of 15 kinds of ginsenoside in the panax traditional Chinese medicine. The 15 kinds of ginsenoside comprise notoginsenoside R1, ginsenoside Rg1, ginsenoside Re, 24 (R)-pseudoginsenoside F11, ginsenoside Rf, ginsenoside Ra2, ginsenoside Rb1, ginsenoside Rc, ginsenoside Ro, ginsenoside Rb2, ginsenoside Rb3, panax japonicus saponin IV, ginsenoside Rd, panax japonicus saponin IVa and 20 (R)-ginsenoside Rg3. By adopting the method disclosed by the invention, the contents of 15 kinds of ginsenoside in various panax traditional Chinese medicines can be simultaneously determined by reasonably selecting chromatographic conditions and detection conditions, and the method has the advantages of simplicity, convenience, accuracy, high sensitivity, strong specificity and the like, so that the method can be credibly, comprehensively and accurately used for quality control of the panax traditional Chinese medicines.