According to the research, the Estern and Western medical literatural records about the causes and symptoms of the heart failure, the results as follows are concluded. 1. The asthma, suceptibility to fright and severe palpitation are generally revealed from the left heart failure. The causes of it are belong to the Yang and Yeum deficiency which are mainly caused by primordial energy deficiency. 2. The symtoms of asthma which are derived from left heart failure are related to the gasping that contain dyspnea, asthma due to the accumulation of phlegm and severe palpitation and related to shortness of breath due to fluid retention (水喘) that make asthma. 3. In the right heart failure, the edema which is derived from the congestion of vein, is revealed as stoppage of main channel that is mainly caused by the Yang or the Yeum deficiency. 4. The edema which is caused by the right heart failure, is mainly related to the symptoms of Yeum type edema, also it is related to the five viscera-fluid, moreover to the heart-fluid (心水), lung-fluid (肺水) and liver-fluid (肝水). 5. In heart failure, the pathologic symptoms which are derived from the stoppage of blood circulation, are phlegm-retention disease (痰飮), diffuse fluid-retention syndrom (溢飮), fluid-retention syndrome characterized by dyspnea and edema (支飮).