The invention relates to a method for measuring 
drug contents, particularly to a method for measuring danshensu, m-methyl-danshensu, protocatechualdehyde, and 
protocatechuic acid in the 
human blood plasma. The method comprises the following steps: 1) preparation of reference substance storing solutions: weighting reference substances of danshensu, m-methyl-danshensu, protocatechualdehyde, and 
protocatechuic acid, and dissolving the reference substances with 
methanol to obtain reference substance storing solutions of danshensu, m-methyl-danshensu, protocatechualdehyde, and 
protocatechuic acid; 2) preparation of an 
internal standard solution: dissolving an 
internal standard substance of 
vanillic acid with 
methanol to obtain the 
internal standard solution; 3) a treatment method of a 
blood plasma sample: taking the 
blood plasma sample, adding the internal 
standard solution, 
methanol, 
hydrochloric acid, and 
ethyl acetate into the 
blood plasma sample, performing uniform mixing, performing 
centrifugation of the obtained mixture to obtain a supernatant 
ethyl acetate layer, 
drying the 
ethyl acetate layer, re-dissolving the ethyl acetate layer with methanol, and performing 
centrifugation of the obtained solution to obtain supernatant liquid of the blood 
plasma sample; and 4) content measurement: by adopting LC-MS / MS 
chromatography, injecting the reference substance storing solutions and the supernatant liquid of the blood 
plasma sample into a chromatographic instrument to obtain a chromatogram, and calculating concentrations of danshensu, m-methyl-danshensu, protocatechualdehyde, and protocatechuic acid in the 
human blood plasma according to the areas of chromatographic peaks in the chromatogram.