The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine atomized mixture for treating chest surgery postoperative respiratory distress syndrome. After chest surgery and serious chest trauma, because of trauma, tracheal intubation, tracheal incision and nasal feeding tube application, the sputum blockage or hematocele in the trachea and the bronchus is caused, patients generate different-degree symptoms of chest distress, suffocating breath, difficult viscous sputum coughing and the like, and the respiratory distress syndrome is induced. The traditional Chinese medicine atomized mixture has the advantages that traditional Chinese medicine including crepis phoenix, cryptotaenia japonica, radermachera sinica, marsdenia tenacissima, aster ageratoides, fritillaria cirrhosa, cordate houttuynia, radix ophiopogonis and liquorice are selected to be prepared into the traditional Chinese medicine atomized mixture, the traditional Chinese medicine atomized mixture is used for postoperative atomized inhalation therapy, through clinical test in hospitals, the total effective rate reaches 98.3 percent and is obviously superior to that of a control group, in addition, no side effect exists, and the traditional Chinese medicine atomized mixture is worthy of clinical popularization and application.