The invention provides a traditional Chinese medicine composition for curing tuberculous exadative pleurisy. The bulk drugs of the traditional Chinese medicine composition include flos farfarae, root bark of white mulberry, Chinese yam, euphorbia kansui, rhizoma panacis majoris, folium eriobotryae, radix stemonae, Chinese-date, inula flower, Chinese mahonia stems, rhizoma zingiberis, rhizoma sparganii, flowers carthami, folia perillae acutae, allium macrostemon, selaginella tamariscina, vine of multiflower knotweed, exocarpium, changium smyrnioides, poria cocos, semen coicis, turmeric, schisandra chinensis, semen lepidii, radix polygonati officinalis, rhizoma anemarrhenae, dayflower, polygonum cuspidatum, adenophora tetraphylla and kaladana. The traditional Chinese medicine composition reduces untoward effect of hydrothorax absorption, shortens course of disease, reduces pleural adhesions, pleural thickening and chest pain, enables hydrothorax absorption of patients to be quick, remarkably alleviates chest pain, and greatly reduces rate of pachynsis pleurae or pleural adhesion, thereby overcoming side effects caused by western drug therapy and having a certain curative effect on curing tuberculous exadative pleurisy.