The invention discloses a Chinese medicinal preparation for treating stubborn headache. About the pathogenesis of the stubborn headache, Chinese medicine considers that the headache can be caused when six evils attack, discomfort achieves the top of the head, pathogenic factors detain, lucid yang is blocked, or the headache can be caused by internal injury, disorder of qi and blood, meridian stasis and nourishment deficiency in brain. Chinese medicaments such as corydalis tuber, suberect spatholobus stem, five-leaf akebia fruit, pinellia cordata, scorpion, caltrop, antelope's horn, white peony root, human placenta, potentilla anserina, polygala root, longan aril and licorice are decocted by using water in the hospital to obtain decoction; through clinical test, the total effective rate reaches 96.3 percent and is obviously superior to that of a contrast group; and the preparation is quick in response, obvious in symptom improvement, stable in curative effect and worthy of clinical popularization and application.