The invention discloses a medicinal composition for treating rheumatism. The medicinal composition is prepared from the following Chinese medicinal herbs serving as raw materials in parts by weight: 3-18 parts of wild ginger, 3-24 parts of dahurian angelica root, 3-18 parts of Chinese angelica, 6-36 parts of safflower, 3-18 parts of astragalus, 3-18 parts of barbary wolfberry fruit, 6-36 parts of honeysuckle flower, 3-18 parts of white paeony root, 3-18 parts of kudzuvine root, 2-8 parts of dried ginger and the like. The medicinal composition has good curative effects on various rheumatisms such as migratory arthralgia, arthritis, arthritis, obstinate arlhralgia and like, and has good curative effects on other similar relevant rheumatisms such as knee osteoarthritis, lumbar vertebra hyperosteogeny, knee osteoarthritis, gouty arthritis, ischemic necrosis of femoral head, women rheumatism (general aching during menstruation, pantalgia after childbirth and puerperal arthralgia), lupus sebaceous, psoriasis, sicca syndrome, and the like.