The purification technol. conditions of alkaloids from Strychnos nux-vomica in Yisui Tongjing prescription by macroporous adsorption resin were optimized.With the contents of brucine and strychnine as indexes, which were determined by HPLC, macroporous adsorption resins were screened by static adsorption and desorption test, single factor test was used to investigate adsorption and elution conditions, such as adsorption speed, adsorption time, elution concentration, elution speed, the amount of elution and so on, to determine purification technol. of alkaloids from S. nux-vomica in Yisui Tongjing prescription.The optimum purification technol. was: type of macroporous resin was X-5, the concentration of sample solution 0.1 g·mL-1, loading speed 1.0 mL·min-1, sample volume 4 BV, adsorption time 2 h, washed with 1 BV water for eluting impurity, eluted with 6 BV 50% ethanol, elution rate 2.0 mL·min-1.The optimized technol. was simple and economical, and it was feasible for taking macroporous adsorption resin to purify alkaloids from S. nux-vomica.