The invention relates to a Chinese herbal medicine alga culturing essence which consists of the following raw material in weight percentage: 65 to 85 percent of poultry fermenting material, 3 to 10 percent of zeolite powder, 5 to 10 percent of diammonium phosphate, 1 to 3 percent of potassium sulfate, 0.05 to 0.08 percent of magnesium sulfate, 1 to 4 percent of gypsum and 2 to 9 percent of mung bean. The Chinese herbal medicine alga culturing essence can culture phytoplanktons and zooplanktons in a water body, wherein the phytoplanktons comprise unicellular alga such as diatom, cryptozoon and xanthophyta while the zooplanktons comprise zooplanktons such as rotifer, cladocera and copepods, and provides sufficient natural bait for fishes; simultaneously, the Chinese herbal medicine alga culturing essence remarkably promotes the growth of fishes, comprehensively improves water quality and compositions of Chinese herbal medicine and greatly improves the capability for resisting disease of the fishes; and the product has the characteristics of rapid effect, lasting fertilizer effect, high utilization rate, no pollution, low cost and the like.