Chronic heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome of cardiac insufficiency caused by a variety of heart diseases, and is a clinical manifestation of the end stage of various heart diseases. Chronic heart failure belongs to the categories of palpitation, dizziness, asthma, phlegm, edema, and thoracic paralysis in traditional Chinese medicine, and is the ultimate complication of most cardiovascular diseases. The latest treatment system for chronic heart failure in modern medicine is to delay and prevent the development of ventricular remodeling, improve prognosis, and enhance quality of life. Chronic heart failure has a relatively long course and complex etiology. Chinese medicine believes that it is related to kidney yang deficiency, lack of vital energy, paralysis of the heart and blood, and water-drinking stagnation, and it is a mixture of deficiency and reality. Chronic heart failure is characterized by the deficiency of yang qi of the heart, stagnation of blood vessels, internal stagnation of water and drink, and phlegm and turbidity, which belongs to the evidence of the deficiency of the heart and the mixed evidence of the deficiency and the reality.