Objective:To sort out and analyze the domestic and foreign literature on thumb-tack acupuncture in the past fifteen years using bibliometrics methods,summarize the dominant diseases of thumb-tack acupuneture,explore t...Objective:To sort out and analyze the domestic and foreign literature on thumb-tack acupuncture in the past fifteen years using bibliometrics methods,summarize the dominant diseases of thumb-tack acupuneture,explore the mechanism of thumb-tack acupuncture and further the researches of this therapy.It is expected to provide references for policy formulations of current and future development,research hotspots and selection of scientific research topics of thumb-tack acupuncture.Methods:China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI),VIP,Chinese Biomedical Literature(CBM)and PubMed were retrieved by computer,and the literature retrieval results were imported into NoteExpress 3.2 software for mana gement.Then,according to the literature inclusion criteria,the literature that met the standard was included,and the literature results were extracted and statistically analyzed by Excel.Results:Through the integration of 559 Chinese and English papers that met the standards,it was found that the thumb-tack acupuncture was suitable for mental behavior disorder system disea-ses,musculoskeletal connctive tissue diseases,neurological diseases,and genitourinary system diseases;insomnia and herpes zoster were the dominant diseases,and through mec hanism exploration,it was found that there was 8 corresponding relationship with the dominant system diseases in the disease spectrum.Conclusion:The thumb-tack acupuncture has the advantages of solid theoretical basis,definite climical curative effect,wide range of ap-plication and large application area.The current and future researches may require further explorations in the basic experimental studies of the mechanism,clinical contraindications,interdisciplinary researches,improvement of the equipments and standardized clinical operation techniques of thumb-tack acupuncture.展开更多
基金We thank for the funding support from the Henan Province Scientific Research Project of Traditional Chinese Medicine(2015ZY03001)。
文摘Objective:To sort out and analyze the domestic and foreign literature on thumb-tack acupuncture in the past fifteen years using bibliometrics methods,summarize the dominant diseases of thumb-tack acupuneture,explore the mechanism of thumb-tack acupuncture and further the researches of this therapy.It is expected to provide references for policy formulations of current and future development,research hotspots and selection of scientific research topics of thumb-tack acupuncture.Methods:China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI),VIP,Chinese Biomedical Literature(CBM)and PubMed were retrieved by computer,and the literature retrieval results were imported into NoteExpress 3.2 software for mana gement.Then,according to the literature inclusion criteria,the literature that met the standard was included,and the literature results were extracted and statistically analyzed by Excel.Results:Through the integration of 559 Chinese and English papers that met the standards,it was found that the thumb-tack acupuncture was suitable for mental behavior disorder system disea-ses,musculoskeletal connctive tissue diseases,neurological diseases,and genitourinary system diseases;insomnia and herpes zoster were the dominant diseases,and through mec hanism exploration,it was found that there was 8 corresponding relationship with the dominant system diseases in the disease spectrum.Conclusion:The thumb-tack acupuncture has the advantages of solid theoretical basis,definite climical curative effect,wide range of ap-plication and large application area.The current and future researches may require further explorations in the basic experimental studies of the mechanism,clinical contraindications,interdisciplinary researches,improvement of the equipments and standardized clinical operation techniques of thumb-tack acupuncture.
