The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine composition for clearing heat and relieving a cough. The traditional Chinese medicine composition consists of the following raw materials in parts by weight: 10 to 20 parts of herba houttuyniae, 5 to 8 parts of radix glycyrrhizae, 10 to 15 parts of roasted folium eriobotryae, 5 to 10 parts of exocarpium citri rubrum, 4 to 8 parts of sweet wormwood, 3 to 6 parts of herba ephedrae, 10 to 20 parts of frog skin, 3 to 9 parts of fructus schizandrae, 8 to 12 parts of radix ophiopogonis, 2 to 6 parts of apricot kernels, 5 to 10 parts of rhizomaatractylodis macrocephalae and 10 to 15 parts of Sichuan fritillary bulb. Compared with the prior art, the traditional Chinese medicine composition has the following beneficial effects: the traditional Chinese medicine prescription is added with components for clearing heat, eliminating phlegm, moistening lung and tonifying lung while considering the cough-relieving effect, so that the symptoms such as chronic cough and yellow-phlegm cough are cured fundamentally.