[Study on modern disease menu of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy in China].
OBJECTIVE
To analyze and summarize the diseases and syndromes treated by acupuncture and moxibustion.


METHODS
Using literature researching methods to analyze and summarize the diseases and symptoms treated clinically by acupuncture and moxibustion for observation of therapeutic effects from Chinese Biomedicine Optical Disk Database between 1978-2005, and the frequency-time (number) of reported papers for each disease and syndrome were calculated.


RESULTS
The disease menu of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy, 461 kinds in 16 classifications were attained, including 338 diseases of western medicine, 73 symptoms of western medicine and 50 TCM syndromes.


CONCLUSIONS
Acupuncture and moxibustion are an effective therapy with wide indications.
Du
Yuan-hao
YH
First Hospital Affiliated to Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China.
Li
Jing
J
Sun
Dong-wei
DW
Liu
Wei-hong
WH
Li
Gui-ping
GP
Lin
Xue
X
Ren
Hui
H
Wang
Han
H
Zou
Bei-li
BL
Jiao
Su-lin
SL
Huang
Wei
W
D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D009071:Moxibustion / Q000379:methods*