Disclosed is a composition for preventing, ameliorating or treating visceral fat obesity containing a Salvia miltiorrhiza radix extract having excellent activity of reducing visceral fat. Disclosed is a composition for preventing, ameliorating or treating visceral fat obesity containing an extract of Salvia miltiorrhiza radix that has efficacy specific for visceral fat when administered to obese model animal mice that have obesity caused by decreased leptin secretion and diet-induced obesity (DIO) mice in which obesity is induced using a high-fat diet. Disclosed is a composition for preventing, ameliorating or treating visceral fat obesity containing an S. miltiorrhiza extract, wherein the S. miltiorrhiza extract inhibits the production of triglyceride (TG) in liver tissue and the blood, indicating that the S. miltiorrhiza extract has inhibitory activity on visceral-fat-type obesity, and the S. miltiorrhiza extract decreases the expression of ALT, LDH, BUN, FFA or HbA1C in the blood and reduces visceral fat, as can be seen from MRI and MRS.
