The invention relates to a medicinal and edible Chinese herbal composition for treating chicken respiratory infections, comprising, by weight percent, 5-10 parts of apricot kernel, 8-12 parts of mulberry bark, 5-10 parts of root-bark of Chinese wolfberry, 6-10 parts of Baical skullcap root, 5-10 parts of common Anemarrhena rhizome, 5-10 parts of Lalang grass rhizome, 5-10 parts of Perilla seed, 3-6 parts of pepperweed seed, 10-15 parts of radish seed, 5-10 parts of snakegourd fruit, 5-10 parts of common hogfenneI root, 5-10 parts of licorice root, and 3-6 parts of bezoar. The raw materials above are prepared according to the parts by weight and are ground into fine powder mixed in chicken feed for feeding. The medicinal and edible Chinese herbal composition has a major function of treating chicken respiratory infection caused diseases with main symptoms such as cough, head whip, bronchorrhagia and laryngeal hemorrhage; this composition has quick action, a therapeutic course is short, reoccurrence is rare, and the composition has no toxic or side effect and a total effect rate above 95%.