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Acupoint compatibility is an important part of the acupuncture treatment system, which has a direct impact on clinical efficacy. Based on years of clinical experience and clinical research, the author believes that practitioners treating patients by acupuncture and moxibustion should pay attention to syndrome differentiation of channel theory and acupoint matching along meridians. The acupoint compatibility characteristics of superficial disease and visceral disease are different. Superficial disease is superficial and related to meridian circulation; practitioners should pay attention to the distribution along the meridian and mainly combine local-distal acupoints. When treating visceral diseases, with visceral dysfunction as the main pathogenesis, practitioners should pay attention to surface infusion and combine specific acupoints. Based on the characteristics of acupuncture and moxibustion, selecting the appropriate differentiation and acupoint compatibility method is beneficial to building a clinical practice fit acupuncture treatment system to improve the clinical efficacy of acupuncture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a representative external therapy of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture is considered a valuable treasure with a history of thousands of years and it has been playing an important role in the process of disease prevention and treatment. In this paper, advices was given in order to improve the reliability of clinical evidence of acupuncture. The author summarized existing contradictions and issues by reviewing the status quo of evidence of acupuncture clinical trials. With the expansion of acupuncture disease spectrum, and emerging of high-quality clinical trials, promoting acupuncture clinical research evidence reliability would serve as the breakthrough point. Currently reliability of evidence in acupuncture clinical research has gained increasing international recognition. However, there remains room for improvement in the setting of sham acupuncture standard, attainment of practical evidence, and translation studies of clinical research result. In the future, it is advised to standardize sham acupuncture, achieve international consensus on operating standards, strengthen real world studies, as well as translate clinical trials result of acupuncture from multiple disciplinary perspectives, to further improve the influence of acupuncture in the process of internationalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]