Th is paper aims at the graded purification ficinalis How.During the investigation,the Morinda and structure analysis of the polysaccharides from Morinda ofofficinalis How polysaccharides(MOHPs)were first obtained bv the extraction with hot water and subsequently by the precipitation with ethanol.Then,four polysaccharide frac-tions named respectively MOHP-Ⅰ,MOHP-Ⅱ,MOHP-Ⅲ and MOHP-Ⅳ were isolated by means of Anion-Ex-change Chromatography and Gel Filtration Chromatography.Finally,the structures of MOHP-Ⅰ and MOHP-Ⅲ were Dreliminarily analyzed by means of FT-IR,UV-IR,LPC and GPC.The results show that MOHP-Ⅰ is a polysac-charide composed of glucose and fructose,with a molecular mass of 2 ku and a typical structure with furan ring,and that MOHP-Ⅲ is a protein.bound polysaccharide composed of arabinose,xylose,glucose,fructose and galac‘
tose.with a molecular mass of 35 ku.It is also demonstrated by the results of high-perform ance Gel Perm eation Chromatography that MOHP-Ⅰand MOHP-Ⅲ can both be isolated with a high purity.