The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine for treating rheumatoid. The traditional Chinese medicine comprises, by weight, 10 to 25 parts of notopterygium root, 10 to 25 parts of radix angelicae pubescentis, 10 to 25 parts of bark of ash, 5 to 18 parts of divaricate saposhnikovia root, 5 to 18 parts of radix angelicae sinensis, 5 to 18 parts of safflower, 22 to 42 parts of red sage root, 4 to 16 parts of cassia twig, 4 to 16 parts of radix clematidis, 5 to 18 parts of rhizoma corydalis, 5 to 18 parts of rhizoma cyperi, 5 to 18 parts of scorpio, 2 to 8 parts of centipede, 5 to 18 parts of black snake, 1 to 5 parts of pseudo-ginseng, 22 to 42 parts of lycopodium clavatum and 22 to 42 parts of garden balsam stem. The traditional Chinese medicine can effectively treat rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis, has the functions of relaxing muscles and tendons and removing obstructionfrom meridians, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, warming channel and expelling cold, clearing damp and relieving swelling, and regulating qi to alleviate pain, produces effects fast and has no toxic or side effect.