The invention relates to an external traditional Chinese medicine for relieving pain, particularly to an external traditional Chinese medicine for relieving pain in the fields of wind-damp pain, surgical pain (cut-free wound), traumatic injury, dysmenorrheal and the like. The traditional Chinese medicine contains medicines of rhizoma corydalis, caulis sinomenii, corydalis decumbens and the like, and the medicines can be combined to achieve the functions of activating blood, dispersing stasis, relieving swelling and pain, dispelling wind and eliminating dampness. The external traditional Chinese medicine can be used for effectively relieving pain of diseases of wind-damp ostealgia, rheumatoid arthritis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, sprain, sprain, traumatic injury, dysmenorrheal and the like, and has the definite pain relieving effect when being prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 10-40 parts of rhizoma corydalis, 10-30 parts of caulis sinomenii, 10-40 parts of corydalis decumbens and 0.5-5 parts of borneol. The external traditional Chinese medicine can be prepared into extract through extraction with 60-75% ethyl alcohol, and can be processed into external dosage forms of tincture, spray, ointment, external cream paste and the like according to pharmacy.