The invention belongs to the technical field of medicaments, and provides a method for preparing total triterpene of Chinese medicament garden burnet root. The total triterpene is mainly obtained by performing reflux extraction by 70 percent ethanol, absorbing by a macroporous absorbent resin, using water to wash off impurities, using ethanol solution for elution, then decolorizing an eluent by daiamid powder, using the ethanol solution for elution, and recovering the ethanol through pressure reduction. The total triterpene mainly contains triterpenic acid active components such as arjunic acid, 1beta-euscaphic acid, euscaphic acid, tormentic acid and the like, and triterpenoid saponin active components such as sanguisorbin I, sanguisorbin II, sanguisorbin III, niga-ichigoside, kaji-ichigoside F1 and the like. Experimental results show that the total triterpene has remarkable anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. The total triterpene has definite action substance basis and action mechanism as well as simple preparation technology, is suitable for industrialized production, can be taken as medicinal raw materials for treating inflammatory diseases such as burn and scald, rectitis, ulcerative colitis, pyelonephritis and the like, and is prepared into clinically acceptable dosage forms such as tablets, capsules, granules or compound preparations according to the prior process.