Key Recommendations on Nursing Patients, a short essay of about one thousand characters written by Qian Xiang of Qing dynasty in 1832, discusses mental nursing and daily life nursing for the elderly partially and puts forward some dos and don's on consulting doctors, preparing medicine, decocting medicine and taking medicine, which is of certain historical value and practical reference significance. In the past 20 years,Key Recommendations on Nursing Patients has been called " the first nursing monograph in Chinese history" or " the first nursing monograph in traditional Chinese medicine" , and even has been regarded as a milestone in the history of nursing development at home and abroad by some scholars, which is really beyond recognition and should be corrected.The nursing history researchers should study Key Recommendations on Nursing Patients in the long history of nursing development, and make a proper evaluation of its academic value and historical status on the basis of understanding the nursing thoughts, knowledge and methods of Qing dynasty and before.