The invention discloses an external-application Chinese herbal medicine for treating neonatal jaundice. The external-application Chinese herbal medicine for treating neonatal jaundice is prepared from, by weight, 3-8 parts of bunge corydalis herbs, 5-15 parts of plantain herbs, 5-15 parts of herba hyperici japonica, 10-20 parts of climbing violet herbs and 5-15 parts of cape jasmine, and the raw materials are fresh medicines. When the external-application Chinese herbal medicine is prepared, the five fresh raw material medicines are taken in weight proportion, mixed and pounded into pulp, and the external-application Chinese herbal medicine can be obtained. The Chinese herbal medicine has the functions of clearing heat, reducing inflammation, detoxifying, purging intense heat, cooling blood, inducing diuresis, removing dampness, dispelling wind, eliminating stasis to subdue swelling and the like, the Chinese herbal medicine is externally applied to neonatal hand-wrist joints, is soaked to aortas through skin moisture permeability and rapidly enters the liver and the gallbladder and the human body, detoxifying and inflammation diminishing are carried out through blood circulation, the normal metabolic function of bilirubin is recovered, jaundice disease is rapidly cured, pains, caused by the western medicine blood exchanging treating method, the adrenal cortex hormone treating method, traditional Chinese medicine enema and the like, of neonatus are overcome, the problem that difficult neonatus medicine taking caused by oral medicine is solved, a preparing method is simple, the raw materials are easy to obtain, the cost is low, and the treating effect is good.