The invention discloses an instant tea for treating yin-deficiency cold and a preparation method thereof. The instant tea is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight by extraction: 8-12 parts of glossy privet fruit, 8-12 parts of coastal glehnia root, 8-12 parts of dwarf lilyturf tuber, 8-12 parts of fragrant solomonseal rhizome, 8-12 parts of manyflower solomonseal rhizome, 15-20 parts of barbary wolfberry fruit, 8-12 parts of prepared rehmannia root, 8-12 parts of white peony root, 8-12 parts of poria peel, 8-12 parts of verbena officinalis, 15-20 parts of corn stigma, 8-12 parts of oriental waterplantain rhizome, 8-12 parts of sweet wormwood herb, 8-12 parts of picrorhiza scrophulariiflora, 8-12 parts of Chinese mahonia leaf, 8-12 parts of cynanchum atratum, 15-20 parts of perilla frutescens, 8-12 parts of divaricate saposhnikovia root, 8-10 parts of fineleaf schizonepeta herb, 8-12 parts of ginger, 15-20 parts of fistular onion stalk, 15-20 parts of chrysanthemum, 8-12 parts of common achyranthes herb, 8-12 parts of vernonia cinerea, and 100-150 parts of black tea.