The invention relates to the field of traditional Chinese medicines, in particular to a traditional Chinese medicine for treating gastrointestinal tumors and provides a novel method for treating the tumors on account of defects of traditional Chinese medicine for treating the tumors in the prior art. Growth of the tumors can be effectively controlled. According to a technical scheme for solving the problem, the traditional Chinese medicine is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 0.01-0.03 parts of venenum bufonis, 5-6 parts of scorpions, 9-15 parts of rhizoma pinelliae, 3-5 parts of trogopterus dung (ground into powder with liquor), 8-10 parts of rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae, 2-3 parts of pericarpium citri reticulatae, 2-3 parts of fructus amomi, 2-3 parts of radix aucklandiae, 8-10 parts of rhizoma cyperi, 5-7 parts of Szechwan Chinaberry fruits, 6-8 parts of pollen typhae (fried), 12-15 parts of bulbus fritillariae thunbergii, 6-8 parts of radix glehniae, 10-12 parts of radix angelicae sinensis, 10-12 parts of radix rehmanniae recens and 4-5 parts of radix liquiritiae. The traditional Chinese medicine has the advantages that toxic and side effects are small, treatment is convenient, treatment cost is low, and the treatment cost is only one-fifth to one-tenth of the cost of the chemotherapy and surgery when the same curative effect is achieved.