The invention discloses a medicine for treating gouty arthritis. Dioscorea nipponica, homalomena rhizoma, lycopodium clavatum, pangolin, herba artemisiae, angelica, clematis root, cyathula root, mistletoe, scorpion, shelled cedar seed, drynaria, hooked uncaria, catchweed bedstraw herb, gentiana macrophylla, pseudo-ginseng, nux vomica, ophiopogon root, radix angelicae, prepared rehmannia root, black stone, safflower, burdock, phlogacanthus curviflorus, sapium baccatum, wild sword bean, broken pine pollen, Chinese ixora root, pilose triumfetta root and leaf, laciniate blumea herb, veined inula root, mandarin clematis herb, sambucus thunbergiana, indigofera mengtzeana, Chinese clovershrub root, puberulent premna leaf or root, flatspine pricklyash leaf, sharpfruit calanthodes herb, cinnamomum burmanni, camphor wood, fruit of keiske wormwood, rice galingale herb, common javatea root, glabrousleaf pittosporum root and licorice are scientifically and reasonably mixed according to the assistant and guide principle and are decocted and concentrated into paste; and then the paste can be attached to the affected part to achieve the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving exterior syndrome and expelling pathogenic wind, eliminating swelling and alleviating pain, expelling wind and activating blood flow, strengthening and consolidating body resistance as well as strengthening tendons and bones.