The invention relates to the field of pharmaceutical formulas, in particular to a traditional Chinese medicine for preventing and treating motion sickness. The traditional Chinese medicine is characterized by being prepared from, by weight, 17-22 parts of gastrodia elata, 13-17 parts of hairyvein agrimony, 17-22 parts of uncaria rhynchophylla, 3-7 parts of polygala tenuifolia, 13-17 parts of storax, 17-22 parts of Pinellia ternate, 17-22 parts of radix clematidis, 13-17 parts of glossy privet fruits, 17-22 parts of clove roots, 22-28 parts of radices hemerocallis, 13-17 parts of semen plantaginis, 3-7 parts of silene conoidea, 13-17 parts of atropa belladonna, 8-12 parts of kaempferiae, 8-12 parts of piper longum, 5-10 parts of pericarpium arecae, 13-17 parts of fructus alpiniae oxyphyllae, 8-12 parts of perilla leaves, 8-12 parts of tabasheer and 17-22 parts of notopterygium roots. All the raw materials are soaked with water, and residues are removed after decoction is performed to obtain a filtrate. The traditional Chinese medicine is small in toxic and side effect, lasting in medicine effect, good in curative effect, low in cost, capable of achieving the purpose of treating carsickness while carsickness is prevented, and obvious in effect on treating a vomiting reaction in carsickness.