The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine external application medicine powder for treating scapulohumeral periarthritis, which is prepared by the components by weight mixture ratio: 20-35g of paniculate swallowwort root, 10-15g of nutgrass galingale rhizome, 20-35g of herba lycopi, 20-30g of the root of bidentate achyranthes, 10-15g of drynaria rhizome, 10-15g of oyster, 20-35g of spina gleditsiae, 10-15g of rheum officinale, 10-15g of rhizoma atractylodis, 10-15g of dipsacus root, 20-35g of obscured homalomena rhizome, 15-30g of notopterygium root, 20-35g of radix gentianae macrophyllae, 5-10g of frankincense, 18-30g of szechuan lovage rhizome, 6-12g of monkshood, 12-36g of speranskia grass, 10-25g of manchurian wildginger, 16-35g of radix angelicae, 20-45g of lateral-flower milkwort herb, 20-40g of hedera helix, 15-30g of radix angelicae pubescentis and 25-55g of halite. The traditional Chinese medicine external application medicine powder has reasonable formulation, and has the effects of disinfecting and removing blood stasis, promoting blood circulation and stopping pain, eliminating dampness and purging intense heat, removing wind poison, damp poison and sweat poison in the human body, etc.