The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine for treating rheumatic and rheumatoid arthritis, which comprises the following raw materials of medicines in parts by weight: 20-30 parts of safflower, 5-10 parts of twotooth achyranthes root, 20-30 parts of eucommia bark, 15-20 parts of angelica, 10-30 parts of radix salviae miltiorrhizae, 5-10 parts of Chinese ephedra, 5-15 parts of pubescent angelica root, 10-15 parts of pawpaw, 5-15 parts of glossy privet fruit, 5-15 parts of prepared rehmannia root, 5-15 parts of spatholobus stem, 5-15 parts of licorice, 5-15 parts of radix aconiti, 5-15 parts of ebony, 5-15 parts of dahurian angelica root and 5-15 parts of paniculate swallowwort. Various raw materials of the medicines of the traditional Chinese medicine are mutually matched, and the traditional Chinese medicine reinforces the body, promotes blood circulation, relieves the stasis of blood, smoothes qi and blood, relaxes muscles and tendons, activates the collaterals, achieves the effects of expelling wind and removing damness and can effectively cure the rheumatic and rheumatoid arthritis.