The invention relates to Chinese medicinal powder for treating pharyngitis, which is prepared from the following raw material medicaments by weight: sanchi, safflower, Indian trum etflower seed, rosewood heart wood, myrrh, honeysuckle flower, catechu, great burdock achene, rhubarb, cicada shell, Chinese angelica, cinnabar and frankincense. The Chinese medicinal powder is prepared by the followingsteps of: preparing the raw material medicaments into powder; sieving the powder with a 200-mesh sieve to prepare the Chinese medicinal powder. The Chinese medicinal powder takes the effects of activating blood and stasis as a principal thing, takes the effects of clearing and disinhibiting throat as supplement, and can address both the symptoms and root cause. The Chinese medicinal powder has the effects of activating blood and dissolving stasis, dispersing swelling and relieving pain, astringing dampness and closing sores, relieving itching and preventing cough, stopping hoarse voice and dumbness, and clearing and disinhibiting throat, and can eliminate diffuse dark red hyperaemia at oropharyngeal parts and promote hyperplastic lymph follicles to recover normal physiological status and physiological functions, and can repair, heal and restore soft tissue injury at the oropharyngeal parts. The Chinese medicinal powder has the advantages of short treatment course, high curative effect, low treatment cost, no adverse reaction and no toxic or side effects. Clinical test treatment for near thousand patients with various pharyngitis diseases proves that the Chinese medicinal powder has an effective rate of over 99 percent, a curative rate of 94.3 percent, obvious medicinal effect, and satisfactory curative effect.