The invention discloses application of elsholtzia volatile oil in anti-bacteria and antibiotic resistant bacteria. The elsholtzia volatile oil is extracted by steam distillation. The elsholtzia volatile oil has certain functions of killing and/or inhibiting growth on bacteria of staphylococcus, escherichia coli, candida, pseudomonas, enterobacter, streptococcus and the like and fungi. The elsholtzia volatile oil has certain functions of killing and/or inhibiting growth on bacteria of drug-resistant staphylococcus, drug-resistant escherichia coli, drug-resistant enterobacter, drug-resistant klebsiella, drug-resistant pseudomonas, drug-resistant acinetobacter, drug-resistant streptococcus, and drug-resistant enterococcus and the like. The elsholtzia volatile oil can be used in industries offood, medicine, health care products, cosmetics and the like and can be used for preparing various forms of products with antibacterial and antibiotic resistant bacteria functions, and belongs to thenew application field of the elsholtzia volatile oil.