diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 92949158d..375701166 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #3246: xapian search adapter crashes
 * #3253: In Py2 environment, building another locale with a non-captioned
   toctree produces ``None`` captions
+* #185: References to section title including raw node has broken
 
 Release 1.5.1 (released Dec 13, 2016)
 =====================================
diff --git a/sphinx/util/nodes.py b/sphinx/util/nodes.py
index b5216eb51..1da3f69d8 100644
--- a/sphinx/util/nodes.py
+++ b/sphinx/util/nodes.py
@@ -216,6 +216,8 @@ def clean_astext(node):
     node = node.deepcopy()
     for img in node.traverse(nodes.image):
         img['alt'] = ''
+    for raw in node.traverse(nodes.raw):
+        raw.parent.remove(raw)
     return node.astext()
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_util_nodes.py b/tests/test_util_nodes.py
index e7a4b7e90..ac8c3645d 100644
--- a/tests/test_util_nodes.py
+++ b/tests/test_util_nodes.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from docutils.parsers import rst
 from docutils.utils import new_document
 from docutils import frontend
 
-from sphinx.util.nodes import extract_messages
+from sphinx.util.nodes import extract_messages, clean_astext
 from sphinx.transforms import ApplySourceWorkaround
 
 
@@ -150,3 +150,15 @@ def test_extract_messages_without_rawsource():
     _transform(document)
     assert_node_count(extract_messages(document), nodes.TextElement, 1)
     assert [m for n, m in extract_messages(document)][0], 'text sentence'
+
+
+def test_clean_astext():
+    node = nodes.paragraph(text='hello world')
+    assert 'hello world' == clean_astext(node)
+
+    node = nodes.image(alt='hello world')
+    assert '' == clean_astext(node)
+
+    node = nodes.paragraph(text='hello world')
+    node += nodes.raw('', 'raw text', format='html')
+    assert 'hello world' == clean_astext(node)