Cui M
Institute of Information and Library, China Academy of TCM, Beijing.
J Tradit Chin Med. 1992 Sep;12(3):211-9.
Japan is one of the countries that have done extensive research on the effect of acupuncture and moxibustion on the immunologic functions. With China first, Japan ranks second among the countries in this study. Concerning research in this field concerned the level abroad can scarcely reach that in China. Scholars abroad fail to base their research on TCM theory. In addition not only the type of diseases studied, and the indexes observed are far less than those in China, but also the scope of their research is far narrower. However, certain diseases under study (for instance, AIDS) and certain indexes under observation (for instance, analysis of changes in T subsets of lymphocytes with monoclonal antibodies), as well as certain aspects of their investigation are worthy of consideration by scholars in China.
日本是对针灸对免疫功能影响进行广泛研究的国家之一。在这一研究领域，日本仅次于中国位居第二。国外在该领域的研究水平很难达到中国的水平。国外学者的研究不以中医理论为基础。此外，他们不仅研究的疾病类型和观察的指标远少于中国，而且研究范围也窄得多。然而，他们正在研究的某些疾病（如艾滋病）、正在观察的某些指标（如用单克隆抗体分析淋巴细胞T亚群的变化）以及研究的某些方面值得中国学者考虑。
