The acupuncture manipulation is an important factor for achieving a good therapeutic effect in acupuncture practice.The authors review recent studies on acupuncture manipulation and its qualification from a) differences of the therapeutic effects of acupuncture manipulation

b) quantification of acupuncture manipulations

and c) instruments for delivering and sampling the analogued parameters of different acupuncture manipulations

computer analysis software

etc.Most studies revealed that different acupuncture manipulations had different clinical efficacies.Meanwhile

researches on the quantification of acupuncture manipulations and some related instruments also have made a bigger progress.Nevertheless

there still exist many problems

such as difficulties of various acupuncture techniques in unification in clinic

stronger personal subjectivity in performing manipulations

etc.We should overcome these problems and conduct more researches

so as to raise the clinical curative effect further.