The invention relates to the field of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, and particularly disclosestraditional Chinese medicine powder for treating child anorexia. The traditional Chinese medicine powder is prepared by taking immature bitter orange, atractylodes, Chinese yam, melanoidin malt, fresh hawthorn, coix seeds, tuckahoe, tangerine peel, galli stomachichum corium, white hyacinth beans, fructus amomi, liquorice as raw materials, grinding the raw materials into fine powders, filtering by a 100-mesh sieve and uniformly mixing The traditional Chinese medicine powder for treating child anorexia is characterized by comprising the components by weight percent: 10-14 percent of the immature bitter orange, 9-13 percent of the atractylodes, 10-13 percent of the Chinese yam, 7-10 percent of the melanoidin malt, 6-9 percent of the fresh hawthorn, 10-14 percent of the coix seeds, 6-10 percent of the tuckahoe, 6-9 percent of the tangerine peel, 5-9 percent of the galli stomachichum corium, 6-9 percent of the white hyacinth beans, 2-4 percent of the fructus amomi and 3-5 percent of the liquorice. The invention has low cost, high curative effect for treating the child anorexia and no toxic or side effect, and has the treatment principles that the treatment of anorexia lies in spleen strengthening by activating but not by reinforcing and takes function regulation of the spleen and the stomach as a basic principle, and the twelve Chinese herbal medicines aim to activate the spleen energy, strengthen the stomach and the spleen, replenish qi and nourish the stomach yin.