The prospect of Chrono-Nursing(TCM) applied to traditional Chinese medicine nursing of chest stuffiness and pains

Guided by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) chrono-medicine, this study explored the TCM nursing for the dominant disease, chest stuffiness and pains, by following the nursing philosophy of people oriented, carrying out TCM thought of correspondence between man and universe, combining time biological rhythm of patients with chest stuffiness and pains and time aggregation rhythm of prognosis of disease. The aim of the study was to provide suggestions for maximizing the TCM nursing effects, solving problems including that time nursing lacked the standardized and unified theory, nursing clinical practice deviated from TCM chrono-medicine, and to provide thinkings for optimizing TCM nursing plan for chest stuffiness and pains. Key words: Traditional Chinese medicine chrono-medicine; Chest stuffiness and pains; Coronary disease; Traditional Chinese medicine nursing plan