The invention discloses a Chinese medicinal herb additive for meat chickens and application. The Chinese medicinal herb additive comprises heterophylly falsestarwort root, nutgrass galingale rhizome, amur corktree bark, coptis root, medicated leaven, sanguisorba, hawthorn, Indian Buead, officinal magnolia bark, largehead atractylodes rhizome, tangerine peel, malt, indigowoad root, swordlike atractylodes rhizome, indigowoad leaf, cyrtomium fortune, chatoyancy and calamus; and mixture of the compositions is added with calcium bicarbonate, phytase, mulitivitamin for birds and lysine. The Chinese medicinal herb additive effectively promotes absorption of nutrient, can resist bacteria and virus, strengthen immunity of the meat chickens, effectively prevents bird flu, has obvious curative effect on diseases having respiratory tract symptoms as the major symptom, and has inhibiting function on familiar newcastle disease, colon bacillus, Pasteurella, enteritis, diarrhea, feather pecking, hair shedding, anus pecking, coccidiosis and the like. The additive cannot restrict the growth and disease resistance of the meat chickens, the meat quality of the meat chickens fed by the additive is obviously better than that of the meat chickens fed by the prior feed additive, the average daily gain of the meat chickens is improved by 23 to 28 percent than that of the meat chickens fed by the prior feed additive, the cultivation cycle is obviously shortened, and no harmful substance is deposited.