[Comrade ZHU Lian, a pioneer and innovator of acupuncture and moxibustion science in new China].

Comrade ZHU Lian is a main founder of Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, and she is the first to learn TCM for a physician of western medicine. The present paper looks back the works of comrade ZHU in acupuncture and moxibustion cause. Her main contributions are learning acupuncture and moxibustion medicine, popularizing acupuncture and moxibustion therapy; being concerned acupuncture and moxibustion cause, establishing organization of acupuncture and moxibustion research, more early conducting international exchanges of acupuncture and moxibustion; paying attention to clinical practice, proposing scientific research of acupuncture and moxibustion; writing New Acupuncture and Moxibustion Science, passing on later generations.

The model of traditional Chinese medicine.

Medical model, which guides medical practice, belongs to the field of philosophy. It is retrospective cognition in medicine abroad and changes with the conditions of medical practice. The biological medical model came out in the 15th century.

Electric Acupuncture Convulsive Therapy.

In 150 schizophrenic patients, a comparative investigation between electric acupuncture convulsive therapy (EACT) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) showed that the current used for eliciting a convulsion in EACT was only 3.6% of that for ECT when the electrodes were placed at acupoints Baihui and Renzhong. EACT is a modification of ECT in which stimulating currents are passed through acupuncture needle electrodes inserted in midline positions.