[Survey of studies on the mechanism of acupuncture and moxibustion treating diseases abroad].

Acupuncture is a medical technique with national and cultural characteristics in traditional Chinese medicine with a less adverse reaction and obvious therapeutic effect. Modern medical theoretical basis about acupuncture treating many diseases is preliminarily discovered accompanying with the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine. This paper reviewed advances of the studies on the mechanisms of acupuncture treatment, and acupuncture treating pain, nausea and vomiting, neurodegenerative diseases, cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases and so on in recent years abroad.