ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To understand clinical application of syndrome differentiation and treatment of meridians in acupuncture and moxibustion.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Collect and collate the literature about syndrome differentiation and treatment of meridians in Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Acupuncture Research, Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture & Moxibustion (Clinic edition B in 2003) and Clinical Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion from 2001 to 2003.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Less literature about syndrome differentiation and treatment of meridians are involved, only accounting for 5.69% (163/2 864); and the literature about both treatment based on meridians and treatment based on syndrome differentiation of meridians only accounted for 1.22% (35/2 864).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>At present, clinically acupuncture and moxibustion do not play attention to treatment based on syndrome differentiation of meridians.</p>