[Exploration of -'s academic thought of acupuncture and moxibustion].

This paper summarizes professor -'s academic thought of acupuncture and moxibustion. Professor studies classic literature and clarifies the authentic Chinese medicine from the origin. He provides the unique understandings on the theories, e.g "four passes", , the flowing rule of nutrient and defensive , lung governing management and regulation and moxibustion for sinking of . By analyzing the differences in diagnosis and treatment between acupuncture and herbal medication therapies and exploring the syndrome/pattern differentiation, he advocates the rules of disorder differentiation and treatment in clinical practice of acupuncture and moxibustion, creates 's three-promotion theory and summarizes the characteristic diagnostic methods. He proposes novel statement, perfects theoretic system and creates s extra points. He puts forward that the human acupoint system should be reconstructed to compose of two systems, i.e. meridian acupoints and collateral acupoints systems. Professor pays the attention to acupuncture techniques, proposes a trinity needling technique, "pulse diagnosis, acupoint detection and differentiation under needle", and applies different needling techniques in treatment accordingly. He thinks highly of moxibustion, especially umbilicus moxibustion therapy, which has been used widely in practice. Besides, professor provides the comprehensive methods flexibly, with acupuncture, moxibustion and herbal medication in combination.