The invention discloses a Chinese traditional medicine for relieving swelling and pain and promoting blood circulation to remove meridian obstruction. The Chinese traditional medicine is formulated according to monarch, minister, assistant and guide; raw argy wormwood leaves, prickly ash peels and angelica are adopted as monarch medicines to warm meridians to tonify the kidney, nourish and activate blood, dredge meridians and collaterals and remove dampness and dispel cold to relieve pain; Chinese clematis roots, twotoothed achyranthes roots and common clubmoss herb are adopted as minister medicines to dispel wind to promote diuresis and relieve arthralgia; garden balsam stems, safflowers and Sichuan lovage rhizomes are adopted as assistant medicines to promote Qi circulation and blood circulation, dredge meridians and collaterals to remove blood stasis and dispel wind to relieve pain; and dahurian angelica roots and corydalis tubers are adopted as guide medicines to enhance the effects of dispelling wind to remove cold and promoting Qi circulation to relieve pain. The Chinese traditional medicine can be decocted in water for fumigation and washing to relieve swelling and pain and promote blood circulation to remove meridian obstruction, so that the muscle function can be recovered and blood circulation and nerve conduction can be promoted, and therefore the Chinese traditional medicine is an effective medicine for treating lumbar disc herniation, pain in the waist and the legs and cervical spondylosis. The therapeutic method belongs to physical therapy, and adopts the external treatment method of traditional Chinese medicines and the percutaneous absorption theory of modern pharmacy, consequently, the Chinese traditional medicine can be rapidly absorbed by skin, bioavailability is high, and the Chinese traditional medicine does not have toxic and side effects.