Clinical research progress of acupuncture after pulse diagnosis

Acupuncture after pulse diagnosis has good efficacy in treatment of cancer, pain, etc., and has advantages when compared with conventional acupuncture according to analysis of the its origin, clinical application, mechanism research, etc.. However, this therapy has not been applied widely clinically due to the lack of large-scale clinical randomized controlled trials, large sample and long-term efficacy observation, and in-depth mechanism research. In the future, large sample and long-term efficacy study should be conducted in order to determine the efficacy of acupuncture after pulse diagnosis, further illuminate its mechanism, and promote its clinical application.