ABSTRACT
In June 27, 2017, there were two acupuncture clinical trials published in (). The conclusions were that electroacupuncture could relieve the leakage of urine of female stress urinary incontinence and that acupuncture with clomiphene or not could not improve the live birth rate of female with polycystic ovarian syndrome, compared with shallow insertion at non-acupoint combined with clomiphene placebo. The Youth Committee of the China Association of Acupuncture-Moxibustion held an academic salon about the above two trials on September 7, 2017. It is considered that rigorous design is key to clinical acupuncture-moxibustion trial, that acupuncture-moxibustion therapy is with psychosomatic medicine theory. The clinical acupuncture-moxibustion research method was discussed, including study group selection, acupuncture control, the primary outcome, the interpretation of result, etc.