The invention relates to the field of traditional Chinese medicines, in particular to a medicament for treating acute and chronic colonitis, which is used for solving the problems of temporary relieving of symptoms, incapability of healing, large side effects and the like existing in the conventional colonitis treating medicament. Chinese medicinal raw materials prepared into active ingredients consist of the following components in parts by weight: 10-20 parts of astragalus, 15-20 parts of Chinese magnoliavine fruit, 10-15 parts of Chinese pulsatilla root, 10-15 parts of hairyvein agrimonia herb and bud, 10-15 parts of weeping forsythia, 5-10 parts of amomum fruit, 5-8 parts of fructus crataegi, 5-8 parts of medicated leaven and 2-5 parts of dried ginger. Cold and warm materials as well as ascending and descending materials supplement each other in a prescription, so that various types of acute and chronic colonitis can be cured in a short period of time, a remarkable curative effect is achieved, the curative rate is up to 90 percent, and relapse after curing is prevented; and moreover, the medicament belongs to a pure Chinese medicinal preparation, is low in cost, is easy to accept by patients, and is worthy of clinical popularization and application.