The invention discloses a preparation method of dimethylmorphinan 
phosphate used as a 
cough medicine. The method comprises the following steps: removing L-
mandelic acid from (S)-l-(4-methylbenzyl)-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octahydroisoquinoline-L-mandelate to obtain (S)-l-(4-methylbenzyl)-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octahydroisoquinoline, performing 
methylation by using the (S)-l-(4-methylbenzyl)-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octahydroisoquinoline chiral material as a 
raw material, and then performing cyclization reaction together with 
phosphoric acid under the conditions of heating and decompression to obtain (9S,13S,14S)-3,17-dimethylmorphinan monophosphate with three chiral centers, namely dimethylmorphinan 
phosphate; and desalting, rectifying, crystallizing, salifying, 
drying, and packaging to obtain the refined dimethylmorphinan 
phosphate product. The method has the characteristics of simple process, low cost, high yield, high product purity, short 
production cycle and the like, thereby being a synthetic 
route suitable for industrial 
mass production.