Japan-China College-to-College Cooperative Research on the Scientific Evaluation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Effects.

针灸在世界范围内被越来越多的人接受和理解。特别是在欧洲和美国，人们对针灸的治疗应用和用现代科学知识寻找其作用方式的解释越来越感兴趣。本研究在日本关西东方医学院与中国上海中医药大学的合作研究下，对针灸疗效进行科学评价。从1992年至今，两校先后举行了六次联席会议，讨论了两国针灸原理和技术的细微差异。本次会议的组织者介绍了三十多项基础实验研究，并通过会议进行了讨论。可以理解，中国针灸的特点是临床观察和数据收集，有助于中国传统针灸的原则，在过去。然而，现在，然而，与科学和临床验证紧密联系在一起的是无可争议的方法。

Acupuncture-moxibustion is continuing to be accepted and and understood more and more throughout the world.In Europe and the Americans, in particular, there has growing interest in the therapeutic application of acupuncture and in the search for explanation of its mode of action in terms of modern scientific knowledge.The present study was concerned on their scientific evaluation of acupuncture and moxibustion effects, supported by the cooperative research of Kansai College of Oriental Medicine (Japan) and Shanghai University of Chinese Medicine (China). Since 1992 up-to-date, six joint-meetings were held at the two college and discussed the minor-difference of their acupuncture-principles and-thechniques between the two countries.More than thirty basic experimental studies were introduced by the present organizers and discussed through the meetings. And it could be understood the Chinese acupuncture is characterised by the clinical obsevations and the gathering of data, conducing to the chinese traditional-acupuncture principles, in the past. The present, howeve13EA05 : The present, however, is attached to scientific and clinical validations stradity tied with an indisputable methodlogy.