Temperature is an important index to reflect the level of energy metabolism

and the temperature of the deeper tissue

relatively speaking

is stabler than the skin temperature. In order to know the characteristics of energy metabolism of the acupoint

the non-acupoint on the meridian and the contrast point

the authors applied the advanced temperature sensor which the sensitive part to temperature is only its tip and the precision thermometric instrument to determine the deep temperature of them. 200 points of 10 rabbits were detected

and the detected depthes were repectively 0.5 cm and 1 cm under the Subculaneus layer. The results show that the ternperature of the acupoints and the non-acupoints on the meridian is higher than that of the contral points and the difference is of statistics significance

and the temperature difference is also obvious at the different depthes of the detected points

i. e.

the temperature of 1 cm depth is higher than that of 0. 5 depth

but the temperature difference between the acupoints of the left and right sides which have same name is not obvious. The results suggest that the level of energy metabollsm of the acupoints and the non-acupoints on the meridian is higher than that of the contral points

and it is of physiological significance to apply the manipulation of acupuncture or retain the needle in certain depth of acupoint

and the acupoints of two sides which have same name have a good symmetric relationship in energy metabolism.