Chinese medicine classifies respiratory failure into stable stage and acute exacerbation stage, and patients with respiratory failure are commonly found in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In the stable stage of respiratory failure, the main symptoms are wheezing and shortness of breath, but the symptoms are mild and can be tolerated. The TCM dialectic believes that the pathogenesis is due to lung and spleen qi deficiency or lung and kidney qi deficiency, and the treatment is to tonify the lung, strengthen the spleen, tonify the kidney, and then some of the lungs are declared to pacify the wheezing and the lungs can be used in tonifying lungs soup or Liu Jun Zi Soup in the treatment. In the acute exacerbation stage, the main symptoms are mainly phlegm, drink, water, dampness, and blood stasis. In the process of treatment, it is necessary to support the correctness and eliminate the evil, and the relative treatment plan is to support the correctness and eliminate the evil, and according to the different symptoms of phlegm, drink, water, and dampness, it is possible to adopt the treatment of expelling phlegm, expelling drink, and activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis.