Aippuric acid test(HAT) and hepatic energy metabolism and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation activity in rabbit with acute obstractive jaunidce was studied.The result showed that the HAT values were decreased from 98.4±32.0mg/h to 32.7±17.6mg/h(Plt;0.001),energy charge(EC) decreased from 0.81±0.01 to 0.72±0.02(Plt;0.001),and phosphorylation rate(PR)decreased from 62.1V5.1 to 38.3V2.4(Plt;0.001).Correlation coefficients between HAT and EC was 0.786,(Plt;0.001).This result suggests that HAT can be used as an indicator of hepatic energy metabolism status in acute obstructive jaundice.