The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine compound for treating headache. The traditional Chinese medicine compound comprises rhizoma corydalis, radix angelicae, millettia specisoa champ., chuanxiong rhizomas, fructus viticis, rhizoma ligustici, medicinal cyathula roots, kudzuvine roots, radix scutellariae, herba asari and liquorice roots. According to the traditional Chinese medicine compound for treating headache, rhizoma corydalis, chuanxiong rhizomas and radix angelicae serve as the sovereign drugs and achieves the effects of eliminating qi stagnation, removing stasis and dredging brain collaterals to relieve pain; millettia specisoa champ. is capable of dredging collaterals and relieving urgent symptoms, kudzuvine roots are capable of dredging channels and resolving tetany, fructus viticis is capable of soothing collaterals and dispelling wind, and the materials assist the sovereign drugs in promoting qi to activate blood, dispersing blood stasis, dredging channels, soothing collaterals, relieving urgent symptoms and dredging qi and blood; meanwhile, rhizoma ligustici is combined for dispelling wind disturbance of brain apertures, medicinal cyathula roots are combined for ensuring proper downward flow of blood, radix scutellariae is combined for clearing away superficial heat, herba asari guides all other materials to enter brain channels and dispels wind to relieve pain, the materials serve as adjuvant drugs and achieve the effects of reinforcing and activating collaterals and relieving pain, and liquorice roots coordinate actions of all the drugs and serves as a conductant drug. All materials in the whole prescription work together to achieve the effects of promoting qi to activate blood and activating meridians to stop pain. The traditional Chinese medicine compound for treating headache is minor in side effect, sufficient in drug amount, quick in effectiveness, lasting in treatment effect after the compound becomes effective and good in cure effect, and drug loading capacity is obviously higher than that of preparations on the market.