In the present paper

the authors make a bibliometrics study on clinical indications of acupuncture therapy based on the published foreign articles about acupuncture clinical trials collected from PubMed database and Excerpta Medica database(EMbase).In 1996

64 acupuncture indications were declared by WHO in Milan conference.But in recent 15 years

clinical trials have been conducted extensively in the foreign countries.Till now

77 new indications for acupuncture therapy have been found in the foreign journals.The authors recommended that 29 indications(knee osteoarthritis

critique age problems

muscular fasciae ache

anxiety

etc.) should be added to the first class

4 indications(irritable bowel syndrome

malposition

backache

simple obesity) should be upgraded from the second class to the first class

and the other 3 indications(childbirth pain

male and female barren) should be upgraded from the third class to the first class due to their application frequency in clinical trials.Increase of clinical indications reflects extensive application of acupuncture therapy and may help providing a better service for people's health.