title: [Regulative action of acupuncture and moxibustion on mucosal immunity].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the regulative action of acupuncture and moxibustion on mucosal immunity and its curative effect on mucosal relative diseases.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review the recent 10 years' achievements of studies on mucosal immunity and analyze the regulative action of acupuncture and moxibustion on the mucosal immunological system in treatment of mucosal relative diseases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Acupuncture and moxibustion has a good regulative action on local mucosal immunological system, which is one of the mechanisms of acupuncture and moxibustion in prevention and treatment of mucosal relative diseases. This proves a more reliable basis for treatment of mucosal relative diseases with acupuncture and moxibustion.
authors.affiliation: Ruikang Hospital, Guangxi TCM College, Nanning, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Shan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D026881:Acupuncture; D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D006801:Humans; D018928:Immunity, Mucosal; D009071:Moxibustion