The invention relates to an ointment for treating burns and scalds, belonging to the field of traditional Chinese medicines. The ointment for treating burns and scalds is prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 0.3-5 parts of pearls, 5-8 parts of large strawberry slices, 3-10 parts of corium elephatis, 20-50 parts of yellow wax, 5-10 parts of yellow lead and 500-800 parts of benne oil. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: firstly, grinding the pearls; screening with a sieve of 120 meshes; putting the benne oil in a pot and heating; heating for 15-40s after smoking and then sequentially adding the pearl powder, the large strawberry slices, the corium elephatis, the yellow wax and the yellow lead; and evenly stirring and continuously heating until dropping in water droplet shapes to obtain the ointment of the invention. The ointment of the invention has high wound absorption speed, rapid pain alleviation, short recovery time, remarkable curative effect and low treatment cost without infection, toxic or side effect, pathological scars or skin grafting, and can be used for treating various fire burns, oil scalds, metal burns and scalds, electric burns, gunpowder burns explosion injuries and chemical medicine injuries caused by strong acid, strong alkali, and the like.