The invention belongs to the technical field of traditional Chinese medicine processing, and particularly relates to a processing method of rhizoma curcumae. The processing method comprises the following steps: S1, cleaning a rhizoma curcumae raw medicinal material, soaking the raw medicinal material in saline water for 16-35 hours, and taking out, cleaning and airing the raw medicinal material; S2, putting the rhizoma curcumae aired in S1 into a NaOH solution for soaking for 20-50 minutes, and performing washing with water until a washing liquid is neutral; S3, placing the rhizoma curcumae obtained in the S2 in an oven at 30-40 DEG C for 18-26 hours; S4, putting the rhizoma curcumae obtained in S3 into 95% ethanol, adding fresh ginger in a weight ratio of the rhizoma curcumae to the freshginger being 5: 1, performing soaking for 12-30 hours, and performing airing; S5, boiling the rhizoma curcumae obtained in S4 for 10-30 minutes, and performing cooling; S6, soaking the rhizoma curcumae obtained in S5 in vinegar for 8-36 hours, and performing airing; S7, placing the rhizoma curcumae obtained in S6 in an oven at 20-35 DEG C for 10-24 hours. The content of curcumol and curdione in the rhizoma curcumae is increased.