The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine-based health care and epidemic prevention method for laying hen breeding. The method is characterized in that after chicken move in a henhouse, realgar, agastache rugosus, fructus chebulae, meadowrue root and rhizome, phellodendron amurense and portulaca oleracea are adopted for preventing white diarrhea and other bacteriosis; codonopsis pilosula, roasted rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae, poria cocos, astragalus membranaceus and honey-fried licorice root are utilized before and after the chicken are immunized; folium isatidis, astragalus membranaceus and herba epimedii are adopted for preventing and treating bursa of fabricius of the chicken; radix bupleuri, fineleaf schizonepeta herb, pinellia ternate, poria cocos, liquorice, fritillary, platycodon grandiflorum, almond, radix scrophulariae, radix paeoniae rubra, mangnolia officinalis, pericarpium citri reticulatae and asarum sieboldii are adopted for preventing and treating respiratory disease of the chicken; polyporus umbellatus, poria cocos, rhizoma alismatis, rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae and cassia twig are adopted for preventing and controlling nephritis cardiac edema; coptis chinensis, scutellaria baicalensis, phellodendron amurense and cape jasmine are adopted for preventing bacteriosis; when the chicken move to other groups, antifebrile dichroa, radix bupleuri, radix sophorae flavescentis, artemisia apiacea, carbonized sanguisorba root and lalang grass rhizome are adopted for preventing coccidium; if the chicken grow slowly and is low in feed intake, codonopsis pilosula, astragalus membranaceus, poria cocos, medicated leaven, malt, hawthorn and liquorice can be adopted; and codonopsis pilosula, astragalus membranaceus, poria cocos, rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae, malt, hawthorn, medicated leaven, semen cuscutae, fructus cnidii 10 and herba epimedii are adopted for prolonging the peak period of lay of the hen.