[Preliminary study on disease menu of acupuncture and moxibustion abroad]

Sum up clinical diseases and symptoms treated by modern acupuncture and moxibustion and disease menu of acupuncture and moxibustion abroad. By literature research methods, the diseases and symptoms reported in clinically acupuncture and moxibustion randomized controlled paper from 1978-2007 in databank of Pubmed network, USA, were analyzed and summarized, and the number of paper (frequency-times) and conclusion of therapeutic effect (effective and ineffective) of each disease reported were counted up. Five hundred and eighty-seven papers of clinical acupuncture and moxibustion abroad, including 130 diseases and symptoms of 16 systems, were found. In these papers, 110 diseases and symptoms were unanimously considered effective and 16 diseases and symptoms were considered effective by most papers, and one disease was showed by equal number of paper of positive or negative effect, and one disease was considered ineffective by most of the paper, and 2 diseases and symptoms were considered ineffective by all of the papers. It is indicated that acupuncture and moxibustion have wide indications and have been widely applied at home and abroad, and disease menu of acupuncture and moxibustion is enlarging, and acupuncture and moxibustion have a vast application prospects.