The formation and development of Chinese medicine has a long history. For thousands of years, the working people of China have accumulated a wealth of experience and theories in the process of fighting against diseases, and have made valuable contributions to the health care of human beings. As an acupuncturist, I will only talk about my understanding of the role and unique advantages of acupuncture and moxibustion. What are the advantages of acupuncture and moxibustion? What diseases can acupuncture treat? This is the proposition put forward by the international health community for China, and we have the responsibility and obligation to answer these propositions because, China is the birthplace of acupuncture and moxibustion medicine. To answer the above questions, we must first understand what are the characteristics of acupuncture therapy? The characteristics of acupuncture therapy can be summarized as follows: First, the nature of action: it is a mechanical stimulation, a natural therapy, an external treatment. Second, the duration of action: determined by the reflexivity of the stimulus, whether the effect is fast. Third, the essence of the action: not exogenous substances, energy supplementation, relying on the promotion, stimulation of the body’s own regulatory functions and the potential for self-rehabilitation, so that the body from the pathological state to the normal physiological state, the role of the peak is limited. Fourth, the safety of the action: no toxic side effects of exogenous substances (drugs), which is determined by the essence of its action. According to the statistics in the early 1960s, one third of the hospitalized patients in the United States belonged to the “medical” or “drug” origin of the disease. The side effects that have accompanied the advances in modern medicine and biology continue unabated. The prevention of antibiotic abuse is an issue that we emphasize every day, and many times we are faced with the embarrassment of having no medicine available. Acupuncture, on the other hand, is a traditional tool that is largely free of toxic side effects when done correctly. “Western medical methods confirm that acupuncture does work,” is how two institutions affiliated with the National Institutes of Health, after the longest clinical trial to date, proved that traditional Chinese acupuncture techniques can relieve pain and improve knee function in patients with arthritis. This is the first time that acupuncture has passed the test of Western medicine. The results were published on December 21, 2004 in the American Journal of Internal Medicine, and 570 volunteers were recruited for the study. Some of the volunteers received 24 sessions of acupuncture, while others received “pseudo-acupuncture” treatments during the same period. The so-called “pseudo-acupuncture” is a method to verify that acupuncture has only a psychological comforting effect and that the needles are not placed in the appropriate points. The results showed that patients who received acupuncture experienced an average of 40% reduction in pain and 40% improvement in knee function. Acupuncture is a Chinese national treasure, so why should foreigners have to confirm it? But the reality is hopeless, acupuncture has to endure trials and tribulations if it is to be widely accepted in the world! The NIH’s assessment is that acupuncture therapy is remarkably effective for many diseases, with definite effects and minimal side effects, and can be widely used. We believe that the side effects of acupuncture are caused by improper handling and can be completely overcome. Moreover, this side effect is fundamentally different from that caused by drugs, and its impact on human health is minimal. In addition, simple tools, easy operation, unrestricted treatment conditions, and low cost are also the advantageous features of acupuncture therapy. The characteristics of acupuncture can be summarized as theoretical characteristics, technical characteristics and characteristics of the types of diseases treated. Theoretical features are mainly in meridian theory, acupoint theory, etc. Technical features include various acupuncture tools, acupuncture techniques, moxibustion method, cupping method, etc. The characteristics of treatment types are mainly in dysfunctional diseases, painful diseases and sensory and motor dysfunctional diseases, etc. The characteristics of acupuncture theory and acupuncture techniques are knowledge and techniques not available in Western medicine, which can be considered as one of the advantages of acupuncture; the advantages of acupuncture in treating disease types, such as peripheral facial palsy, pseudobulbar palsy, post-operative abdominal intestinal paralysis and urinary difficulties, hysteria, etc. This advantage is the most practical and important advantage of acupuncture, because no matter how many advantages acupuncture has, it ultimately has to be implemented to the advantage of treating disease, which is the meaning of acupuncture’s existence. In addition, the health economics of acupuncture is also one of the advantages, and there are other advantages of acupuncture such as humanization of the treatment process, improvement of patients’ quality of life, non-toxicity, ease of operation, and suitability for grassroots application. Currently, a research project has been launched to identify the current situation of acupuncture in China, to find out the key problems that restrict the development of the discipline, and to promote the modernization and internationalization of acupuncture. The project is led by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and undertaken by the Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion Society. Researcher Liu Baoyan, vice president of the Acupuncture and Moxibustion Society and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, pointed out that acupuncture is an important part of Chinese medicine, with the characteristics of good efficacy, easy operation, low cost, no side effects, and easy to learn and use. Its two-way adjustment of the human body without interfering with its own functions has attracted the attention of the international mainstream medical community. After four years of hard work, Dr. Du Yuanhao, Deputy Director of the National Acupuncture Clinical Research Center and the First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, led his postgraduates to search a total of 45,081 articles on acupuncture from 1978 to 2005 by applying the Chinese Biomedical CD-ROM Database, and finally obtained preliminary conclusions. The inclusion criteria for the literature were clinical research papers on acupuncture and moxibustion, and the papers were required to have at least their own before-and-after controlled efficacy comparisons. The exclusion criteria were case reports, animal experiments, reviews, and other non-clinical efficacy observation papers; the exclusion criteria for the disease spectrum were irregular disease names or only one occurrence in the literature of this study, which were eliminated according to the principle of “no isolated evidence” in the literature study. Through statistical analysis of the literature on the clinical efficacy of acupuncture, a total of 461 diseases were treated by acupuncture, including 338 Chinese and Western medical diseases, 73 Western medical symptoms and 50 Chinese medical evidence. In accordance with the World Health Organization’s Interstatistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, the clinical spectrum of acupuncture was divided into 16 categories according to the characteristics of the clinical spectrum of acupuncture, and the frequency of each disease was statistically analyzed. 16 categories were 29 infectious and parasitic diseases; 9 tumor diseases (mainly for the toxic side effects of tumor radiotherapy, tumor pain and fever, immune deficiency, etc.); blood and hematopoietic organ diseases (mainly for tumor radiotherapy side effects, tumor pain and fever, immune deficiency, etc.); 5 blood and hematopoietic diseases; 9 endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases; 29 mental and behavioral disorders (26 Chinese and Western diseases, 2 Western symptoms and 1 Chinese medical certificate); 61 neurological diseases (46 Chinese and Western diseases, 10 Western symptoms and 5 Chinese medical certificates); 31 eye and appendage diseases (22 Chinese and Western diseases, 5 Western symptoms and 4 Chinese medical certificates); and ear and mastoid diseases. (22 diseases, 5 symptoms and 4 symptoms in Western medicine); 7 diseases of the ear and mastoid (5 diseases in Western medicine and 2 symptoms in Chinese medicine); 25 diseases of the circulatory system (16 diseases, 7 symptoms and 2 symptoms in Western medicine and 2 symptoms in Chinese medicine); 28 diseases of the respiratory system (17 diseases, 3 symptoms and 8 symptoms in Western medicine and 8 symptoms in Chinese medicine); 52 diseases of the digestive system (27 diseases, 15 symptoms and 10 symptoms in Western medicine and 10 symptoms in Chinese medicine); and 52 diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissues (27 diseases, 15 symptoms and 10 symptoms in Western medicine and 10 symptoms in Chinese medicine). The spectrum of diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue is 65 (48 diseases, 11 symptoms and 6 symptoms); the spectrum of diseases of the genitourinary system is 51 (32 diseases, 10 symptoms and 9 symptoms); and the spectrum of diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium is 13 (13 diseases, 10 symptoms and 9 symptoms). spectrum of 13 diseases (9 of its Chinese and Western medical diseases and 4 of Western medical symptoms); 18 kinds of injuries, poisoning and certain consequences of external causes (14 of its Chinese and Western medical diseases and 4 of Western medical symptoms). Although there is a new understanding of the types of diseases treated by acupuncture, but this is still a preliminary conclusion, this conclusion is only based on the study of acupuncture literature in China, and due to historical reasons, the quality of the paper also varies, but completely deny the value of this literature is not a scientific attitude, it at least reflects the basic scope of modern acupuncture medical disease in China, in addition, to engage in genealogical literature research is the first step we must take In addition, it is the first step that we must take in order to answer this proposition, and a lot of work needs to be done.