title: [Modern documentary research on disease menu of acupuncture-moxibustion for mental and behavioral disorder].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Dominant disease menu of mental and behavioral disorder of acupuncture therapy was summarized and obtained in this article.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literatures on clinical treatment of mental and behavioral disorder with acupuncture were picked up from CBMdisc and CNKI during 1978 to 2007. Types of mental and behavioral disorder and report frequency of each disease treated with acupuncture were counted. And dominant diseases which were favorable to be treated with acupuncture were acquired through analysis and inductive method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Twenty-nine diseases of mental and behavioral disorder are favorable to be treated with acupuncture which were mentioned in totally 1967 related documents. It is found that the number of reports of sleep disorder, depression, hysteria aphronesia, dementia and sexual disorder are ranked as the top five.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is concluded that the preponderant diseases of mental and behavioral disorder treated by acupuncture are dementia, withdrawal syndrome, mental retardation, obsessive-compulsive disorder, sleep disorder, gastrointestinal neurosis (gastrointestinal disorders), depression, alcoholism and globus hystericus.
authors: College of Acupuncture and Tuina Massage, Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu 610075, Sichuan Province, China.
authors: You-Ping
authors: YP
authors: Hu
authors: Yong
authors: Y
authors: Chen
authors: Lin
authors: L
authors: Xing
authors: Bai-Lu
authors: BL
authors: Niu
authors: Feng-Juan
authors: FJ
authors: Zhu
authors: Jing
authors: J
authors: Han
authors: Yu
authors: Y
authors: Wang
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Bian
authors: Cong-Sheng
authors: CS
authors: Liu
authors: Li
authors: L
authors: Wei
authors: Yuan-Hao
authors: YH
authors: Du
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D009071:Moxibustion