The invention discloses a method for preparing pinoresinol from salted turnips, which comprises the following steps: 1, the preparation of dry salted-turnip powder: slicing salted turnips, drying at a temperature of 50 DEG C, crushing, sieving by using a 20-mesh sieve so as to obtain dry salted-turnip powder, putting the dry salted-turnip powder into a sealed bag, and putting the sealed bag into a dryer for standby application; 2, the preparation of a salted-turnip crude extract; 3, the preliminary separation of the salted-turnip crude extract; 4, the separation and purification of a component Y1; and 5, the separation and purification of components 1-2: after a moderate amount of alcohol is added into the components 1-2 for dissolving, enabling the obtained object to pass through a reverse-phase silica gel column to carry out separation, eluting by using 50% CH3OH, and selecting a fourth flow component and separating by using a normal phase silica gel; eluting by using petroleum ether, collecting flow components of 97th to 116th pipes, merging the flow components, concentrating the obtained object, and removing a solvent by evaporating, so that pinoresinol is obtained. According to the invention, pinoresinol is separated from salted turnips for the first time, and as a main antifungal ingredient of the salted turnips, the pinoresinol is of great significance for the secondary development of salted turnips.