title: [Review of literature on the specificity of therapeutic effects of acupoints on the basis of data mining].
abstract: The specificity of the therapeutic effect of acupoints is an important research subject in acu-moxibustion medicine, but is short of systematic and profound literature review by using modern science and technology. The modern data mining technique provides a new reliable technique or an approach for assessing the relative specificity of the acupoint efficacy from literature reviewing angle. In order to explore the basic regularities of the specificity of acupoint efficacy, a data-library of acu-moxibustion literature should be established first, followed by setting up a data analysis model for which the acupoint prescriptions are considered to be the basis, and by establishing a data mining methodological system.
authors.affiliation: Chengdu University of Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 610075, China. renxg2468@163.com
authors.forename: Yu-lan
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Fan-rong
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Liang
mesh_terms: D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D006801:Humans; D012196:Review Literature as Topic