The invention discloses a method for extracting and separating taxol and other
taxane compounds from yew. The method includes the steps of extraction,
degreasing, crude separation to an organic phase and an aqueous phase respectively, refined separation with reverse-phase
chromatography, and
crystallization. The invention sequentially adopts the
ethanol of 80 to 95 percent, 60 to 75 percent and 20 to 55 percent to carry out gradient extraction to the yew material and also to fully extract
taxane compounds with different polarities so as to lead the total extraction rate of the
taxane compounds to be raised to more than 90 percent from 70 percent of the traditional art; the simultaneous extracting of 8 different tazane compound monomers from one set of the yew material is realized by the invention and the purity of each
monomer can reach more than 98 percent; an aqueous phase substance which is generated in the extraction process abandoned by the traditional art is fully utilized to raise the
utilization rate of the taxane compounds in the yew by 10 to 20 times, therefore, the
bottleneck problem of industrial production of the lack of yew material is effectively solved.