Objective: To establish an effective method for determining the strychnine of Tongmai pill concentrate (TPC) in rat plasma by UPLC. Method: The rat plasma samples were processed by liquid-liquid extraction and separated on a BEH C18 column. The mobile phase consisted of 23% acetonitrile and 77% water containg 0.02 mol·L-1 potassium dihydrogen phosphate and 0.01 mol·L-1 sodium heptanes sulfonate (adjusting pH 2.5 with 10% phosphonic acid.The flow rate was 0.18 mL·min-1. The detection wavelength was set at 260 nm and the column temperature was 30 ℃. Result: The determination of strychnine was not interferred by the endogenous in the rat plasma. The calibration curve of strychnine was in good linearity within the range of 0.043 2-10.8 mg·L-1. The mean extraction recoveries were more than 85% and intra-and inter-day precisions were less than 10%. The stability results meet the requirements for the biopharmaceutical analysis. Conclusion: This sensitivite and precise analytical method is applicable to the pharmacokinetic study of strychnine of TPC in rat plasmas.