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In present Japan, the consent to insurance for acupuncture & moxibustion is limited on neuralgia & rheumatism. But acupuncture & moxibustion are useful for many internal diseases (visceral, systemic), such as WHO indication note on acupuncture and NIH declaration of consensus to acupuncture.<BR>Tracing to the history of acupuncture, since old china country of acupuncture origin, “core doctrine in Yellow emperor's school” and also after diffusion to Japan, acupuncture and moxibustion had been used many kinds of internal disease.<BR>In modern Japan, my teacher B.Shirota published enormous case reports of acupuncture and moxibustion.<BR>In modern western countries, prof W.Osler, great physician, had adopted acupuncture in his textbook of medicine.<BR>In Japan prof. K.Miura, scholar of internal medicine, Tokyo University, performed the special lecture on acupuncture in second assembly of Japan medical congress. Then he had indicated the anesthesia effect of acupuncture already.<BR>In 1960 prof. Y.Oshima, physical therapy of internal medicine, Tokyo University, spoke the fundamental study of acupuncture and moxibustion at this congress and reported the clinical study of acupuncture at Journal of Japan medical association. <BR>About future's subject, 1) Inspections of acupuncture effect with RCT and Genome analysis are necessary on every internal disease and writing the properties of treatment points and method. 2) I hope the objective expression on finding of body surface with instruments, and soon.