The invention relates to an external ointment for assistance of acupuncture therapy. Effective components of the external ointment comprise the following raw materials: pine needle, tribulusterrestris, costustoot, purslane, radiate bulbophyllum herb, flexuose climbing fern, erycibe obtusifolia benth, spatholobus suberctu, forrest silkvine stem or root, gentianopsis barbata, lygodium japonicum sweet, star-flower lysimachia, silkworm excrement, dendrobium candidum, corydalis amabilis and scorpion. The external ointment is prepared by adopting a modern advanced medical pharmacy technology, can be used for eradicating internal evil of rheumatic pain and reinforcing the capability of resisting cold damp-heat and invasion of other exogenous pathogens, can effectively prevent relapse after a disease is healed by physiotherapy, reinforce the resistance of immune system, can break through the passage of liver and kidney metabolism, activate blood circulation to remove stasis, and accelerate liver and kidney to dispelling cold and dampness, so that a strong wind-cold damp toxicity resistance is formed on the human body, and the acupuncture therapy can achieve the best effect; the medicinal materials are compatible and accord with researching theories of traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine, and the external ointment can overcome the defects of acupuncture therapy and is worthy of wide clinical popularization and application.