The invention provides a traditional Chinese medicine for preventing influenza. The traditional Chinese medicine comprises crude drugs such as folium isatidis, subprostrate sophora, herba elsholtziae, aleppo avens, platycodon grandiflorum, abrus cantoniensis hance, artemisia apiacea, ginseng leaves, radix angelicae, rhizoma anemarrhenae, manyleaf paris rhizome, burdock, cloves, groundsel, lalang grass rhizome, rhizoma dryopteris crassirhizomae, rheum officinale, radix bupleuri, Chinese barberry roots, semen sojae germinatum, Chinese yams, lonicerae flos, concretio silicea bambusae, rainbow conk, ligusticum and herba epimedii. The traditional Chinese medicine for preventing the influenza can inhibit virus replication, adjust the immune function and realize a broad-spectrum antibacterial effect, has a good effect on prevention of the influenza, is not prone to development of drug resistance and free from toxic and side effects and adverse reactions and can adjust the immune functions of human bodies well.