Abstract: Imperial Chrysanthemum is an important traditional Chinese medicinal material for both medicine and food. It mainly contains medicinal ingredients such as flavonoids, volatile oils, terpenes and organic acids with high medicinal value. At present, as people pay more and more attention to the dual use of imperial Chrysanthemum, the medicinal components of golden silk emperor Imperial Chrysanthemum have also been studied in depth. In order to deepen the status of Imperial Chrysanthemum in the field of Chrysanthemum research and further improve the application value of Imperial Chrysanthemum.This paper systematically summarized its research progress from the aspects of its chemical composition and pharmacological activity. The flavonoids in Imperial Chrysanthemum were are the main direction of pharmacological research, and the terpenes and other components also had a variety of pharmacological activities. In the future, we can strengthen the research on the terpenoids of Chrysanthemum and the mechanism of action of Chrysanthemum extract.