The invention discloses a new traditional Chinese medicine compound for treating intestinal obstruction and a preparation method thereof, wherein the traditional Chinese medicine compound of the invention mainly comprises the following raw material medicines: rhizoma cyperi, storax, dalbergia wood, rhubarb, dried orange peel, fruit of immature citron, pangolin, grass-leaved sweetflag, angelica, brush-cherry seed, maticated leaven, malt, radish seed, rhizoma sparganii, rhizoma zedoariae, tambac, fumitory, radix curcumae, rhizoma ligustici wallichii, salvia miltiorrhiza, peach kernel, safflower, magnolia officinalis, amomum villosum and the like. The traditional Chinese medicine compound of the invention can be prepared into any common oral preparation according to a conventional traditional Chinese medicine preparation method. The invention can markedly improve the symptoms of abdominal distension as a drum, abdominal pain, vomit, constipation, absent bowel sounds, flatus and aroused body fluid and electrolyte loss, intestinal wall circulatory disturbance putrescence and secondary infection and the like, and has exact clinical curative effect, remarkable curative effect and rapid effect taking. Because the traditional Chinese medicine compound of the invention is combined by basically adopting medicine-food homologous medicaments specified in National Formulary, the traditionalChinese medicine compound has the advantages of low cost, basically no toxic or side effect and the like.