title: [Internationalization and innovation of abdominal acupuncture].
abstract: Characteristics of abdominal acupuncture are analyzed through three aspects of inheriting and innovation, collaborated research as well as international visual field. It is pointed that abdominal acupuncture is based on clinical practice, focuses on enhancing the therapeutic effect and expending the clinical application. It also promots the thinking on how to recall the tradition and how to inherit tradition availably. The modern medical problems should be studied and innovation resolutions should be searched, which can help the internationalization and modernization of abdominal acupuncture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chinese Medicine, Medical College, Paris 13 University, Paris 98014, France. wyongzhou@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: Yong-Zhou
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality