Strictly speaking, acupuncture is only a specific technique of TCM, and it does not belong to the same level as the method of tuning the spirit and the method of tuning the form. The Nei Jing era coincided with a watershed in the transition of mainstream Chinese medicine from the Shen Tuning Method to the Shape Tuning Method, and although acupuncture and Shen Tuning was repeatedly described and praised in the Huang Di Nei Jing, it was already the last song of the Shen Tuning Method. After the two Han dynasties, the method of tuning the gods (including the method of tuning the gods by acupuncture) was no longer mentioned and gradually faded out of the view of Chinese medicine practitioners. The origin of the method of toning the spirit began in the pre-millennium, before the rise of needles and stones and the rise of tonics, and was relied upon in various forms of sorcery (including the familiar practice of Zhuyu) that evolved through the ages, with the final glory resting on the art of acupuncture in the Nei Jing era. (Anyone who is a professional in Chinese medicine knows that the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine is essentially a monograph on acupuncture and moxibustion therapy, and that the formulation of the soup and liquid prescriptions took shape after the Eastern Han Dynasty’s Treatise on Typhoid and Miscellaneous Diseases) The earliest meaning of the method of adjusting the shape is simple and clear: it includes the treatment of stabbing pus and ulcers, releasing blood, draining edema, and so on, which are precisely the so-called “coarse shoushang” methods. Since then, the acupuncture and shaping method has developed step by step to the present day, relying on the doctrine of meridians. In all fairness, the current method of acupuncture and moxibustion has been far from the “rough work of the lower scholar” in the era of the Nei Jing, and is the necessary way to begin acupuncture and moxibustion. The “non-invasive acupuncture point burying technique” and “excitation pain point acupuncture therapy” are typical of them. There is a specific reason for the decline of the method, which is also the difference in the scope of application and efficacy of the method of acupuncture, which I will discuss later in another article. In conclusion, I would like to say that although acupuncture itself is only a therapeutic medium, its greatest advantage is that it can be a vehicle for both shin-regulation and shape-regulation, and is a medical technique that can be studied for a lifetime.