The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine recipe for treating rheumatoid arthritis, which relates to the field of traditional Chinese medicine preparations. The traditional Chinese medicine recipe for treating the rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by comprising sixteen traditional Chinese medicines: Angelica sinensis, Radix rehmanniae Preparata, Ligusticum wallichii, radix paeoniae alba, radices sileris, notopterygium root, frankincense, myrrh, Monkshood, dried tangerine or orange peel, cassia twig, liquorice, Caulis Spatholobi, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Rhizoma Gastrodiae and Pangolin Scales. The sixteen traditional Chinese medicines are taken three times a day after being soaked in white wine for 7 days. The invention has the beneficial effects that the traditional Chinese medicine recipe for treating the rheumatoid arthritis is capable of effectively promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, freeing channels and stopping pains and improving the symptom of blood stasis. The whole blood viscosity and the plasma viscosity are reduced, red blood cell aggregations are reduced, and the plasma proteins are reduced; an obvious inhibitory action is performed on adenosine diphosphate (ADP)-induced platelet aggregations, agglomerate platelets can be rapidly depolymerized, and the red blood cell aggregations in microcirculation are delayed and relieved, thereby, the blood viscosity is reduced, the blood agglomeration state is improved, blood vessels are dilated, smooth muscle spasm is relieved and the pains are relieved. The traditional Chinese medicine recipe disclosed by the invention is a pure traditional Chinese medicine preparation, does not have toxic and side effects and has an obvious effect.