title: [Exploration and reflection on bilingual teaching of acupuncture and moxibustion].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore bilingual teaching of acupuncture and moxibustion for cultivating compound senior acupuncture persons.
  
  
  METHODS
  Beginning with the concept of bilingual teaching in conjunction with acupuncture own characteristics, the problems involved in the practice of bilingual teaching of acupuncture and moxibustion were analyzed and explored.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Unifying opinion and correct localizing position should be started for acupuncture and moxibustion bilingual teaching, and choice of teachers, subjects, models, materials, examination of bilingual teaching should be focused on, and appropriate means should be applied in practice to test, consolidate and distillate the effect of bilingual teaching.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Bilingual teaching of acupuncture and moxibustion is an important measure of economic globalization and knowledge economy. Only if various teaches involved in its practice were properly dealt with could better teaching results be obtained.
authors.affiliation: Acupuncture & Massage College, Guangzhou University of TCM, Guangdong 510405, China. xuyx1968@163.com
authors.forename: Yun-xiang
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D026881:Acupuncture / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D009071:Moxibustion; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*