Abstract: OBJECTIVE To research the effects of total polyphenols from seeds of Toona sinensis(TSTP) in treating Wistar rats suffering from adjuvant arthritis. METHODS The Wistar rats were randomized into normal group, model group, triptolide(20 mg·kg^-1) group, low-dose TSTP group(35 mg·kg^-1) and high-dose TSTP group(70 mg·kg^-1). Adjuvant-induced arthritis models were induced by subcutaneous injection of Freund's complete adjuvant on the left fore paw in rats. On the 8th day after immunization, rats had been treated with gastric infusion until the 21st day, once a day. The rats in normal and model group were treated with 0.5% sodium carboxymethylcell-ulose(10 mg·kg^-1). the Triptolide group were treated with triptolide (20?mg·kg^-1). The low-dose TSTP group was treated with TSTP 35 mg·kg-1. The high-dose TSTP group were treated with TSTP 70 mg·kg^-1. After 2 h of the last gastric infusion, the effects of treatment were valuated by measurement of the swelling degree in jionts, thymus index and spleen index. To observe the morphology changes, ankle joints were cut down and prepared for the tissue slice after hematoxylineosin staining. RESULTS Compared with model group, TSTP decreased the level of visceral organs index, pedal swelling. The difference was significant(P<0.05). Compared with triptolide group, there was no significant difference in high-dose TSTP group(P>0.05) in organs index and pedal swelling, and it was significant between high-doses TSTP group and low-dose TSTP group(P<0.05). CONCLUSION TSTP can reduce the swelling degree, thymus index and spleen index, and improve the pathomorphological changes of ankle joints in Wistar rats suffering from adjuvant arthritis, it indicates that TSTP has certain effects on adjuvant-induced arthritis rats.