title: [Problems and countermeasures for development of acupuncture and moxibustion sciences].
abstract: It is the problems facing acupuncture and moxibustion medicines in our country that the course of modernization has a tendency to deviating guidance of TCM theories; the course of internalization lacks legislative guarantee; the kinds of diseases treated decrease year by year; professional structures shrink, with lower therapeutic fee, and acupuncture and moxibustion are divorced from each other, making it develop slowly; income of acupuncturists is low so as to a large number of talent outflow; international talent for acupuncture and moxibustion lack systematical and scientific training. Therefore, you should grasp the development opportunity of internalization of acupuncture and moxibustion, taking difficult and complicated diseases as focal point, develop scientific studies of standardization, further increasing therapeutic effects, and increasing investment and training of talents, and other measures for strengthening construction of acupuncture and moxibustion sciences.
authors.affiliation: Peking Union Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Chinese Union Medical University, 100730, China. sunhuahe@vip.sina.com
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D009071:Moxibustion / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends