The invention provides a traditional Chinese medicine composition for curing acute pharyngitis. Bulk drugs of the traditional Chinese medicine composition include herb of glabrous sarcandra, polygonum cuspidatum, rhizoma acori graminei, Chinese mahonia stems, scaphium scaphigerum, scutellaria baicalensis, periostracum cicada, dioscorea panthaica prain et burk, radix asteris, flos sophorae, gallnut, fructus gleditsiae, solidago virgaurea, indigo naturalis, ephedra, rhizoma panacis majoris, radix polygonati officinalis, sea-buckthorn, myrobalan, radix scrophulariae, kadsura pepper stems, panax japonicus, puffball, adenophora tetraphylla, Chinese yam, wadalee-gum-tree and liquorice. The traditional Chinese medicine composition can not only control the symptom of acute pharyngitis, but also adjust the equilibrium between yin and yang, improve immunity of human bodies to improve the purposes of nourishing, nursing, relieving symptom, protecting and solidifying the body, and has the advantages of no toxic and side effect, no drug resistance, good curative effect, quickness of becoming effective, no damage to human bodies, and no recurrence of illness after treatment compared with the western medicine for curing acute pharyngitis.