The volatile chemical components of radix paeoniae rubra (RPR) were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), heuristic evolving latent projections (HELP) method and normalization method. According to retention time of chromatography and mass spectra, similarity searches were conducted in the MS database, and the chemical components of volatile oil in RPR were analyzed qualitatively, and then quantitative calculation was carried out using normalization method. Thirty-six of volatile chemical components of RPR were determined, accounting for 95.2...