The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine for treating hypertension. The traditional Chinese medicine is prepared from, by weight, 5-15 parts of fructus podophylli, 6-12 parts of folium ilicis hainanensis, 4-10 parts of toasted seeds of feather cockscomb, 5-12 parts of common gendarussa herb, 3-8 parts of phlogopitum, 10-20 parts of male fern rhizome, 5-15 parts of rhizoma dioscoreae septemlobae, 4-15 parts of manchurian lilac bark, 2-8 parts of Chinese knotweed herb, 3-14 parts of jasminum grandiflorum and 10-20 parts of scutellaria baicalensis. The traditional Chinese medicine can rapidly and stably reduce blood pressure, effectively eliminate bad symptoms such as dizziness, palpitation, choking sensation in chest, shortness of breath, flustering, lacking in strength, insomnia and amnesia caused by hypertension, rapidly relieve the body illness conditions of patients, effectively restore functional injury of heart, brain and kidney caused by hypertension and enable the blood system to recover the self regulation functions from pathogenesis, and has the advantages of being effective rapidly, stably reducing blood pressure, being unique in treatment effect and having no adverse reaction.