The invention relates to the field of traditional Chinese medicine, and in particular relates to a traditional Chinese medicine preparation for treating cough. The traditional Chinese medicine preparation is prepared through the following steps of: measuring herbal raw materials such as radix peucedani, radix platycodonis, semen armeniacae amarum, radix asteris, folium eriobotryae, tangerine peel,poria cocos, and ramulus cinnamomi, heating, disinfecting, crushing by using a crushing machine, filtering by using a 100-mesh screen, drying, adding refined honey according to a mass ratio of 1:1, and preparing a big honey ball. The traditional Chinese medicine preparation of the invention overcomes the defects of the existing medicine for treating the cough, has the efficacies of warming the lung, relieving the cough, invigorating the spleen, tonifying Qi, moistening the lung, nourishing Yin, promoting the secretion of saliva or body fluid, reducing phlegm, clearing away the internal heat,removing the toxicity, lifting the Yang qi and the like, has the advantages of good curative effect, high effectiveness, convenient administration, safety and reliability, natural raw material and easily available raw material, and has an effect of addressing both symptoms and root causes. Meanwhile, the formula has certain flexibility; and appropriate adjustment can be made according to the disease condition and different complications, the pertinence is high, and the treatment effect is better.