Near IR (NIR) spectroscopy and chemometrics were applied to the quant. anal. of total flavonol glycosides and terpene lactone in ginkgo leaf tablets.PLS regression model was set up using a calibration set by 39 samples.The prediction set was set up by 13 samples.The prediction set was predicted by applying the method.The related coefficients R were 0.9788 and 0.9619 as indicated from the cross-validation, resp.The root mean square error of cross validation was 0.104 and 0.063, resp.The correlation coefficient of the true value and predicted value was 0.9199 and 0.9318, and the root mean square of prediction was 0.107 and 0.105.NIR spectroscopy method was simple, rapid and accurate.The method could be applied in rapid qual. and quant. of different batches of ginkgo leaf tablets.