Through systemic collection

sorting and analysis on acu-moxibustion prescriptions for stroke treatment in ancient Chinese medical literature

we concluded that the ancient prescriptions function in inducing resuscitation to restore consciousness in the treatment of emergency and may be divided into "comprehensive prescription" type

"Da Jie Jing Fang" (Prescription of acupoints selected according to the running course of meridian and the arrangement sequence) type and "kidney-qi strengthening prescription" type.Counterevidence from these prescriptions showed that the pathogenesis of stroke was insufficiency of yang and invasion of evil wind

and the insufficiency refers to deficiency of the kidney-yang.These rules had been applied to clinical practice and proved effective.In addition

for preventing stroke the related acupoints should be selected in accordance with the concrete conditions

rather than focusing only on Zusanli(ST 36) and Juegu(GB 39).The present research may have certain significance in guiding clinical practice to solve some complicated problems in acupuncture treatment of stroke.