The invention provides a traditional Chinese medicine formula for treating liver-kidney yin deficiency type lumbar disc herniation and application of the traditional Chinese medicine formula, and relates to the field of traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy. The traditional Chinese medicine formula comprises the following raw materials: radix rehmanniae preparata, radix paeoniae alba, angelica sinensis, poria cocos, eucommia ulmoides, fructus psoraleae, semen cuscutae, radix cyathulae, the root of three-nerved spicebush, asarum sieboldii, Smilax sarsaparilla, semen coicis, lance asiabell root, scandent schefflera stem and leaf, Ardisia maculosa, lesser galangal rhizome, hypericum attenuatum, bauhinia championii, tinospora sinensis merr, Lycopodium fargesii Hert, caulis spatholobi and lycopodium clavatum. The traditional Chinese medicine formula has the advantages of being high in cure rate and total effective rate, low in inefficiency and remarkable in curative effect when used for treating liver-kidney yin deficiency type lumbar disc herniation patients, can greatly relieve disease symptoms of the patients and relieve pain of the patients, and can effectively inhibit generation of inflammatory cytokines TNF-alpha and LI-6 so as to achieve the treatment purposes of thoroughly and radically treating and reducing relapse.