A preparation method of a traditional Chinese medicine lotion for treating redness-swelling type cellulitis belongs to the technical field of traditional Chinese medicine preparation methods. Currently, antibiotics and sulfanilamide medicaments are generally used for the treatment of redness-swelling type cellulitis, and have the disadvantage of great side effect. The technical scheme of the invention is that the preparation method comprises the following steps: soaking the following 28 herbs of polygonum hydropiper, common lantana leaf, sedum, shrubby breynia, phymatopsis hastata, herba patriniae, changium smyrnioide, hemsleya macrosperma, rhizoma anemarrhenae, radix tinosporae, nasturtium, honeysuckle, bidens biternata, houttuynia, herba lespedezae cuneatae, hypericum perforatum, sedum sarmentosum bunge, sagina subulata, lycoris, patience dock root, radix sophorae flavescentis, balsam pear, folium llicis latifoliae, elephantopus scaber, gentrin knotweed, saxifrage, solanum nigrum and licorice in water, decocting with mild fire, filtering to remove residues so as to obtain the medicinal liquid which is the traditional Chinese medicine lotion for treating redness-swelling type cellulitis. The advantages are that the prepared traditional Chinese medicine is less in toxic and side effect, short in treatment course, and high in cure rate, and can also prevent adverse effect caused by western medicine administration.