TNF and congestive heart failure: Some clinical reports showed that the conventional western medicine combined with SFI could further improve the symptoms of CHF patients, TCM syndrome, the quality of life and show a clinical curative effect, increase LVEF and decrease left ventricular end-diastolic diameter [20], reduce plasma BNP and cytokine Fas, tumor necrosis factor-α, and interleukin-6 levels, as well as mobilize the function of bone marrow stem cell [21,22].