The invention provides an externally-used medicinal soup for promoting blood circulation of skin, which is prepared from Chinese medicinal herbs including Sichuan aconite root, Kusnezoff monkshood root, achyranthes and cyathula root, psoralea fruit, banksia rose, prepared rhizome of rehmannia, tuber of multiflower knotweed, curcuma longa, pilose asiabell root, astragalus root, tuber of multiflower knotweed, white atractylodes rhizome, epimeddium, broomrape, morinda root, matrimony vine, dipsacus root, Chinese angelica root, cassia twig, root of red rooted saliva, banksia rose, prepared aconite root, kudzu vine root, mulberry twigs, lilyturf root, schisandra fruit, mulberry seeds, clove, dried ginger, pawpaw, asaryl, dried orange peel, Cinnamomum cassia, licorice root, notopterygium root, silkworm excrement, jack-in-the-pulpit tuber, pinellia tuber and camphor.