Objective: To understand clinical application of syndrome differentiation and treatment of meridians in acupuncture and moxibustion.
Methods: Collect and collate the literature about syndrome differentiation and treatment of meridians in Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Acupuncture Research, Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture & Moxibustion (Clinic edition B in 2003) and Clinical Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion from 2001 to 2003.
Results: Less literature about syndrome differentiation and treatment of meridians are involved, only accounting for 5.69% (163/2 864); and the literature about both treatment based on meridians and treatment based on syndrome differentiation of meridians only accounted for 1.22% (35/2 864).
Conclusion: At present, clinically acupuncture and moxibustion do not play attention to treatment based on syndrome differentiation of meridians.