A composition and a method for treating hyperlipidemia caused by excessive consumption of alcohol. The composition comprises in various parts: folium mahoniae, tender catchweed bedstraw herb, common dysosmatis rhizome and root, root of anhwei barberry, folium isatidis, garden erphorbia herb, dogtooth violet, climbing groundsel herb, huperzia serrata, puff-ball, meadowrue root and rhizome, herba portulacae, Chinese iris seed, European verbena herb, wild buckwheat rhizome, filliform cassytha herb, fig, shrubalthea bark, cottonrose hibiscus flower, cortex fraxini, Japanese white birch bark, peel of bottle gourd, corm of waternut, plumula nelumbinis, watershield, spica prunellae, herba commelinae, copperleaf herb, herba centellae, rhizoma bistortae, fructus gardeniae, radix scutellariae, rhizoma coptidis, cortex phellodendri, tea leaves, herb of spanishneedles, and radix glycyrrhizae. The method comprises weighing each aforementioned herb, blending them into water and soak, boiling the mixture, and filtering the residue.