The invention discloses the technical field of traditional Chinese medicines and in particular to a traditional Chinese medicine for treating dysentery in children. The traditional Chinese medicine is prepared from the following raw materials: haws, dried tangerine or orange peel, white atractylodes rhizome, honeysuckles, jasmines, cortex dictamni, radix isatidis, radix ampelopsis, leaves of Cinnamomum burm anii, rhizoma acori graminei, patrinia scaniosaefolia, chinaroot greenbrier, hairyleaf litse fruit, Chinese yam, shrub althea flower, root of kudzu vine, round-leaved mint leaf, patycodon grandiflorum, root of chinese barberry, fushen and radix glycyrrhizae. According to the traditional Chinese medicine, the medicinal materials supplement with each other, are prescribed according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicines, and prepared in certain proportion by weight to achieve remarkable curative effect on dysentery in children. The traditional Chinese medicine is safe and reliable, nursing on bodies of children can be attended more on the basis of treating the dysentery, the attack times are reduced and the attack probability is reduced. The traditional Chinese medicine has the characteristics of being low in cost, simple to prepare, remarkable in curative effect, and the like.