Litsea Cubeba oil is an important condiment and perfume andwidely used in food and cosmetics industry. Lit- sea Cubeba oil extracted by steam distillation( SD ) was analyzed by GC - MS. Extraction kinetics model of Litsea Cubeba oil was established, and optimized extraction process was analyzed. The yield of Litsea Cubeba oil was 3.06% under the optimized conditions of solid : liquid ration of 20 : 1 and extraction time 4.0 h. Twenty six compounds were identi- fied in Litsea Cubeba oil by GC - MS, and its major components were geranial( 17...