The invention provides a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating periodontitis. The traditional Chinese medicine composition comprises the following components in parts by weight: 8-12 parts of cassia seed, 6-15 parts of common cnidium fruit, 3-10 parts of safflower, 8-20 parts of flos caryophyllata, 6-12 parts of sophora flower, 1-10 parts of largetrifoliolious bugbane rhizome, 4-14 parts of common macrocarpium fruit, 3-9 parts of barbed skullcap herb, 4-15 parts of purslane herb, 6-10 parts of common lophatherum herb, 6-10 parts of black nightshade herb, 12-16 parts of Indian iphigenia bulb and 10-18 parts of dahurian patrinia herb. Aiming at a traditional Chinese medicine principle that periodontitis belongs to the scope of traditional Chinese medicine 'gingival atrophy', the disease location is in gingiva, and periodontitis has close relations to the internal organs such as the stomach, the spleen, the kidneys, the large intestines and the like, the traditional Chinese medicine composition provided by the invention has the effects of dispelling wind and relieving exterior syndrome, clearing heat and cooling blood, nourishing the kidneys and invigorating the lung, cooling the blood and nourishing yin, expelling wind and relieving pain, warming the kidneys and strengthening yang, and tonifying qi and strengthening exterior, and has an accurate curative effect on periodontitis.