Objective To investigate the disease spectrum and predominant diseases treated by abdominal acupuncture by data mining and analysis of journal articles on abdominal acupuncture

and to provide a reference for clinical diagnosis and treatment. Methods Based on the database of abdominal acupuncture established by the research group

the data mining technique was used for the analysis and extraction of the articles on abdominal acupuncture included in this study. Results A total of 788 original journal articles were included. Six departments and 96 disease categories

among which there were 45 internal diseases(46.84%) and 18 surgical diseases(18.75%) were involved. As for the diseases involved

cervical spondylosis had the highest frequency of 84

followed by low back and leg pain with a frequency of 77 and stroke sequela with a frequency of 67. Of all 788 studies

519(65.86%) used abdominal acupuncture combined with other therapies with a total frequency of 552

among which acupuncture had the highest frequency of 135(24.46%)

followed by oral administration of traditional Chinese medicine with a frequency of 81(14.67%) and moxibustion with a frequency of 80(14.49%). Abdominal acupuncture had a marked clinical effect in the treatment of various diseases

with the highest effective rate of 95.10% in surgical diseases. Conclusion Abdominal acupuncture has a wide disease spectrum and is most frequently used for the treatment of cervical spondylosis

with a marked clinical effect. Abdominal acupuncture has unique therapeutic characteristics and advantages

but it can achieve a better clinical effect when combined with other therapies.