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Meridians and Acupoints Science is a basic course and important component of acupuncture and Tuina science. This course contains considerable theoretical and basic knowledge to be memorized, which causes some difficulties for students to study and inevitably influences the learning effect. In view of that, the authors implemented reforms in interest teaching practice in teaching of Meridians and Acupoints Science. Reforms including the use of interesting memory method, string comparison of acupoints, interspersed discussion of cases, presentation of famous doctors' experience in acupoint application and development of the second class activities have achieved some success. That has aroused the students' enthusiasm for learning and improved the quality of teaching.
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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To identify the 100 top-cited articles published in journals dedicated to acupuncture & moxibustion research and analyze their characteristics so as to explore its academic state.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>All the articles were collected from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI, January 1, 1943 to December 25, 2016), Web of Science (January 1, 1950 to December 25, 2016), WANFANG Database (January 1, 1998 to December 25, 2016). The top-cited articles were selected and analyzed with regard to publication year, number of citations, journals, authors, country or region, institution, title, type and subject.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>One hundred and two articles were included, 43 Chinese articles and 59 English articles, cited between 146 and 505 times, and the average number of citation was 222. Of the 10 articles cited in the top 10, China and the United States had 4 articles respectively. These articles appeared in 44 journals, 24 articles in Chinese&, followed by 8 articles in. All the articles belonged to 9 countries and regions, 47 articles from mainland China and 21 articles from the United State. Of the 14 institutes whose article number ranked at top 10, Tianjing University of TCM had 8 articles. The first authors published most papers were professorand Cherkin DC, each of whom had 4 articles. All the articles were categorized into basic science article (n=27), clinical research (n=33) and literature study (n=42). The main topics were pain diseases and brain impairment.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>This analysis of high cited articles reveals academic trends and directions of acupuncture and moxibustion.and moxibustion are more and more recognized by mainstream medicine in the world, but the academic dominance of China has been increasingly challenged by the United States, Germany and so on.</p>
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Objective To make students at different levels not only learn theoretical knowledge of acupuncture-moxibustion manipulation skills but also achieve full operating training, strengthen the combination of theory and practice and improve the teaching quality of clinical disciplines by applyingmultimedia-subject participationteaching method to acupuncture-moxibustion manipulation techniques in the experimental teaching of acupuncture and moxibustion. Method The students were randomized, according to grade, into experiment (n=114) and control (n=115) groups. The teaching content was the same in the two groups. The experiment group received multimedia-subject participationteaching method. After the multimedia teaching, the students did an independent demonstration and made a self-evaluation, the teachers made a comment and the students did independent practice again in groups. The control group received conventional theory teaching and did practice under demonstration in the experimental lesson. The examination and questionnaire were used as assessment indicators to evaluate the effect ofmultimedia-subject participationteaching method applied to acupuncture-moxibustion technique teaching. Result Statistical analysis was made using the SPSS11.5 statistical software package. The independent samples t-test is used for a between-groups comparison. The statistical result showed that satisfaction was 100%in the experiment group and 75.7%in the control group;there was a statistically significant difference between the two groups (P<0.05). Conclusion Multimedia-subject participationteaching method is an innovation in acupuncture-moxibustion technique teaching and helps the students to better master acupuncture-moxibustion manipulation skills. Mastery of theoretical knowledge before real practice is the key to proficient manipulation. The combination of the two in classroom teaching yields twice the result with half the effort. Carrying out multimedia-subject participation teaching method will help to further deepen the teaching reform and to improve the level and quality of“Acupuncture and Moxibustion”teaching.
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This article sorts out and analyzes acupuncture-moxibustion items inTreatise on Cold Damage DiseasesandSynopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamberand proposes regularities in application of and the characteristic ofZhangZhong-jing’s acupuncture and moxibustion. Acupuncture was often used for unblocking and regulating meridional qi and clearing and purging excessive heat. Moxibustion was often used for warming yang and remedying deficiency or dispersing and unblocking yang qi. Because of convenient operation, acupuncture-moxibustion therapy was often used to treatdangerous and serious diseases. Acupuncture and moxibustion were often combined with herbal prescriptions and other therapeutic methods to improve therapeutic effects, especially on difficult and complicated diseases.ZhangZhong-jing’s guiding thought ofacupuncture-moxibustion treatment first advocates treatment of diseases from the root and meanwhile, pays attention to treatment of both symptoms and causes of diseases. Secondarily, it emphasizes acupuncture-moxibustion treatment based on syndrome differentiation and especially values pulse condition, meridians and acupuncture points. It has abundant contents in treating the same disease with different methods and often selects specific acupoints. Thirdly, it favours preventive treatment of diseases, andwhether prevention of diseases before they arise or prevention of diseases from exacerbating was embodied in his acupuncture-moxibustion treatment.
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According to the constructivism learning theory,the paper analyzed the method and the value of applying the constructivism learning theory to teaching Acupuncture and Moxibustion Science in the universities and colleges of Chinese medicine from designing and developing the pedagogy platform and online learning courseware for Acupuncture and Moxibustion Science to the experiment of teaching mode and the effect on teaching experiment based on constructivism learning theory etc.The advantages and effect are also summed up in this article.