The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine formula for treating degenerative osteoarthropathy. The traditional Chinese medicine formula comprises the following Chinese herbal medicinal ingredients in parts by weight: 11g of fructus corni, 16g of radix rehmanniae preparata, 13g of radix morindae officinalis, 11g of herba cistanches, 6g of radix aconiti lateralis praeparata, 13g of cortex cinnamomi, 13g of herba dendrobii, 16g of poria cocos, 6g of radix polygalae, and 11g of rhizoma acori graminei. A preparation and use method of the traditional Chinese medicine composition comprises the following steps of soaking the crude drugs by clean water for 1h, wherein the amount of water for soaking is appropriate to submerge the crude drugs for 3cm; decocting by strong fire, boiling, then decocting for 50min by gentle fire, and pouring out medicine liquid; for the second time of decocting, adding hot water until the drug residue is submerged 2cm under water, decocting for 30min, pouring out medicine liquid, and mixing the medicine liquid of the two times into one dose, wherein one dose is taken for each day respectively at morning and night in a warm taking way.