Medicinal massage in traditional Chinese medicine is called ointment massage in ancient time and is first seen in Synopsis of Golden Chamber. Ointment massage is a comprehensive therapy method with traditional Chinese medicine ointment as massage medium, can be applied to exterior and interior diseases, tri-jiao diseases, viscera diseases and main and collateral channel diseases, and has a better treatment effect than massage alone or external application of medicine alone, and thus popular for thousands of years. Based on the principles of warming by rubbing and drilling wood to make fire, an ointment massage device is composed of a machine shell, a motor, a drill bit-shaped semicircular friction head, a fixing sleeve, a salve mull, an ointment massage switch and a cutaneous penetration switch. The shape of a protrusion on the friction head is improved, the friction head is driven by the motor to rotate at a high speed, friction is generated between the friction head and the salve mull covering skin so as to generate high-intensity squeezing impact force and high temperature, ointment massage and friction cutaneous penetration are conducted under combined action, and then the overall treatment effect of ointment massage is improved remarkably; besides, the defects of existing manual ointment massage methods that labor intensity is high and hands get hurt easily are overcome.