The invention provides a swelling and pain relieving traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) preparation used for treating burns and scalds. The TCM preparation is prepared from India madder root, common coltsfoot, heartleaf houttuynia herb, silktree albizia bark, Chinese dates, isatis root, dandelion, common selfheal fruit-spike, christina loosestrife, wood anemone, dyers woad leaf, eupatorium fortunei, Tokyo violet herb, kudzuvine root, radix astragali, cassia twig, radix bupleuri, weeping forsythia capsule, mirabilite, divaricate saposhnikovia root, cape jasmine fruit, atractylodes rhizome, garden balsam, yolk, hydrocotyle sibthorpioides, root-bark of sessileflower acanthopanax, China dodder, epimedium herb, doubleteeth pubescent angelica root, incised notopterygium rhizome and root, radix rehmanniae, dahurian angelica root, reed rhizome and figwort root. Through clinical application and observation, the TCM preparation relieves swelling and pain of the parts suffering burns and scalds rapidly, promotes wound healing and can effectively prevent bacterium breeding on wounds and prevent cross infection. Relative to the prior art, the TCM preparation has the beneficial effects that the TCM preparation has good curative effects on burns and scalds, takes an effect rapidly, reduces scars, does not have adverse effects and especially omits skin grafting, cosmetology and other surgeries after treating the wounds suffering large-area burns and scalds.