The present paper reviews recent progress about the application of rat's praxiology evaluation in studies on the mechanism of acupuncture in the treatment of some diseases from 1) motor functional impairment evaluation;2) cognition impairment evaluation;3) animal mood score

and 4) pain behavior evaluation.By using different praxiology evaluation methods

the acupuncture curative effect has been confirmed repeatedly in different pathological models.The animal experimental study plays an important role in understanding the mechanisms of acupuncture in the treatment of some common diseases in clinic.However

due to the multiplicity of diseases

and specificity of various phases of a disease

extensive and specific behavior evaluation methods are relatively fewer

some current method terms are still obscure and manual of operations is deficient.Therefore

further improvement of the current behavior evaluation methods and developing more methods with stronger and specific functions aiming at different experiments(disease models) are definitely necessary.