Abstract: Congestive heart failure has become one of the most important public health problems, which has high incidence, poor prognosis, high mortality rate. Indications of the current Western medicine surgery and interventional therapy are rarely. There are a lot of reports concerning with that western medicine treatment of congestive heart failure in clinical practices, but the treating effects are not ideal. In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine treatment of congestive heart failure has been gradually paid great attention. At present, the study of TCM syndromes of congestive heart failure is not yet completely unified, with the lack of standard syndromes determination method in the clinical research, and thus accurate syndrome differentiation, the application of traditional Chinese medicine become the challenge of treatment of congestive heart failure. Only the congestion heart failure of Chinese medicine definition, etiology and pathogenesis, syndrome classification are fully understood, can accurate syndrome differentiation become possible, and have an good effect on congestive heart failure in the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. The study of TCM characteristics of patients with congestive heart failure,especially characteristics of blood stasis syndrome due to qi deficiency,as one of the most common types, has become the most important for accurate syndrome differentiation and treatment, which is also of great significance to guide clinical intervention, improve the efficacy of Chinese medicine treatment of congestive heart failure.

Key words: congestive heart failure, syndrome differentiation, blood stasis syndrome due to qi deficiency