INTRODUCTION Chamaecyparis obtusa (C. obtusa) is a member of the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is commonly known as Kiso-Hinoki in Japan 1. The essential oils extracted from the leaves of the C. obtusa tree are generally used as a functional additive with a good fragrance in soaps, toothpastes and cosmetics 2. C. obtusa plants have been found to contain bioactive compounds, such as quercetrin, myricetin and amentoflavone (Fig. 1), some of which exhibit antioxidant 3 , antibacterial, antitumor, antifungal and anti-mite 4,5. Ionic liquids (ILs) have attractive properties, such as hydrophobicity, miscibility with several inorganic/organic solvents and π-π interactions between the analyte and functional groups of the ionic liquids. The ionic liquids are used in chemical reactions and separation 6. Ionic liquids are also used as stationary phases in HPLC and solid-phase extraction (SPE) sorbents, bonding them to silica and hence constituting silica-confined ionic liquids (SiILs) 7. Solid-phase extraction used widely for the clean-up of analytical samples, as well as for the purification of range of chemicals in the 1970s 8. On the other hand, SPE has disadvantages, such as the low interactions between sorbent and target compounds, which results in, a loss of the target compounds and low selectivity 9. To overcome the disadvantages of SPE, multi-phase extraction (MPE) was developed to clean-up solid samples. The solid sample and sorbent were packed into a SPE cartridge. The first step was removing the impurities. This method uses the classical solid-liquid or SPEs. Solid-phase extraction generally involves extracting, loading, washing and