[Discussion on "sugar needle - comfortable acupuncture and moxibustion"].

The cases of feeling comfort during acupuncture and moxibustion treatment in literature were summarized and its biological basis was explored. A simple classification of comfort was made, and the importance of obtaining comfort in acupuncture treatment was pointed out. Considering the pursuit of less pain and harmlessness in modern clinical treatment, sugar needle should be advocated and popularized in current clinical practice of acupuncture and moxibustion.

[Discussion on published in ].

Professor ' team from Chengdu University of TCM published in on July 29, 2019, which demonstrates that acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy is safety and effective for mild and moderate chronic stable angina. Sixteen experts at home and abroad conducted serious discussions on the research design, evaluation methods, principles and mechanisms, clinical significance and enlightenment of future acupuncture research, and provided practical suggestions for acupuncture and moxibustion to go global and gain international recognition.

Distribution characteristics of meridian sinew (jingjin) syndrome in 313 cases of whiplash-associated disorders.

Objective: To investigate and analyze the characteristics of Meridian Sinew (Jingjin) syndrome in patients with whiplash-associated disorders (WAD).

Methods: From August 2010 to September 2011, 313 WAD cases from New York and California states were collected. The survey mostly collects the information of "Sinew Knotted Points" and symptoms of four types of Meridian Sinew differentiation-Taiyang, Shaoyin, Shaoyang and Yangming.

[Preliminary study on syndrome differentiation types and acupuncture for whiplash injuries].

Whiplash injury is a relatively common injury of clinical acupuncture and moxibustion in the United States. The mechanism and clinical manifestation of whiplash injuries as well as its pathogenesis described in TCM were analyzed in this present article. The authors introduced the TCM syndrome differentiation of whiplash injuries and claimed that both the location and the stage of disease should be considered.

[Application of palpation in various acupuncture schools of the United States: current status and considerations].

Palpation is one of the major diagnostic methods in Chinese medicine. The article has summed up the current status, features and origins of various palpations in different acupuncture schools in the United States, including palpation on meridian, collaterals and acupoints in traditional Chinese acupuncture, abdominal palpation of Japanese acupuncture, pulse checking for couples in five-element acupuncture, palpation on tendon straps and muscle response testing in acupuncture physical medicine. Since great importance has always been attached on social psychological factors in all acupuncture schools of America, it is thus concluded that the interactive mechanism of diagnosis and treatment represented by palpation feedback examination is not only the manifestation of people oriented individualized treatment both physically and psychologically in America, but also a kind of inheritance and development of diagnosis and treatment in the modernization of TCM.

[Leading role of channel-based syndrome differentiation in acupuncture practice].

Channel-based syndrome (pattern) differentiation has played a leading role in acupuncture practice since the time of Huangdi Nei Jing (The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic). In the past several decades, however, the clinical application of channel-based syndrome differentiation has begun to diminish, even presenting a substitutional trend by syndrome differentiation of Zangfu organs. The authors elaborate the importance of channel-based pattern differentiation in acupuncture clinic by analyzing its theory from Huangdi Nei Jing and by summing up the methods,clinical significance and application of the basic diagnostic methods-inspection, auscultation and olfaction, interrogation, pulse-feeling and palpation, and measurement of imbalance of the cutaneous electrical and thermal parameters of meridians and acupoints.