The 364th Session: acupuncture therapy
Under the theme of acupoint studies in acupuncture therapy, the 364th session of the Xiangshan Science Conferences convened from December 15 to 17 in Beijing. Serving as a platform for extensive exchanges between acupuncture teams across the world, meeting was aimed at promoting international cooperation, advancing interdisciplinary studies, facilitating novel brainstorms and encouraging new support.
The mechanism underlying acupuncture is facing enormous challenge in China where this therapy of traditional Chinese medicine was originated. It is urgent and important for Chinese scientists to work out an innovative research framework, evaluation approach and standardized system that both retain the characteristics of acupuncture and obtain worldwide recognition so as to make the studies in China up to international advanced level. Opportunities and challenges have remained for an in-depth exploration of the specificity of acupoints, a key to the traditional Chinese medicine theory as whole. By opportunity, we mean the negation of the once dominant experiments and theories, and by challenge, we mean the ways to take this opportunity to propose and verify new theories and methods.
Therefore, it is urgent for research teams worldwide to collaborate effectively and promote interdisciplinary studies in this field so as to accelerate the development of new growth points in theoretical and methodological studies. Using ¡°precise substance¡± as a bridge, efforts should be made to integrate acupuncture with modern medicine, and further improve this traditional therapy against the background of international circulation and cooperation of medicine.
Focusing on major scientific issues in the field, the meeting reviewed the past developments and look into future advancements from such perspectives as nerve imaging, clinical therapeutics, morphology, histology and systematics. It also made an in-depth analysis on key frontier issues and their solutions, explored new growth points, proposed priorities for its strategies and offered suggestions for its development. In addition, an appeal was made for increased government investment and a big science project on the subject, so as to upgrade China¡¯s international competitiveness and make it a world leader in the studies of acupuncture mechanisms by promoting its overall development.
Experts from various disciplines were invited to have in-depth discussions on the following topics:
1. New imaging technologies and methods for acupuncture studies;
2. Central mechanism underlying the treatment of acute cerebral infarction using resuscitating acupuncture from the perspective of brain glucose metabolism;
3. Advancements in biochemical and endocrinological studies of acupuncture mechanism;
4. Research into specificity of acupoints on the basis of morphology and histology;
5. Acupuncture and science of complexity;
6. Strategic objectives and policy suggestions for Acupoint studies in acupuncture therapy
Executive co-chairs
TIAN Jie, research professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
LIU Yijun, professor, Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
SHI Xuemin, professor, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
HAN Jisheng, professor, Peking University
DAI Ruwei, research professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
LIANG Fanrong, professor, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Keynote Review Reports:
Acupoint studies in acupuncture therapy (Tian Jie)
Spatio-temporal coding-based studies of mechanism of acupuncture (Liu Yijun)
Review Reports on Major topics
New imaging technologies and methods for acupuncture studies (Dai Jianping)
Exploration of central mechanism underlying the treatment of acute cerebral infarction using resuscitating acupuncture from the perspective of brain glucose metabolism (Shi Xuemin)
Advancements in biochemical and endocrinological studies of acupuncture mechanism (Han Jisheng)
Research into specificity of acupoints on the basis of morphology and histology (Zhu Bing)
Acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine and science of complexity (Dai Ruwei)
Strategic objectives and policy suggestions for Acupoint studies in acupuncture therapy (Liang Fanrong)
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