The acupuncture treatment scheme contains several key elements including acupoint selection and prescription

duration of needle retention

treatment frequency

needling manipulation technique

etc. which have

in precision degree

an important influence on the clinical efficacy

and their precise determination needs the guidance of the dose-effect relationship of acupuncture stimulation. In the present article

we discuss the basic concept and content of the dose-effect relationship of acupuncture and analyze its relationship with the precise treatment scheme. The precision and standardization of clinical treatment scheme of acupuncture are definitely not the negation of rich clinical experience

but rather

they are the transcendence of rich clinical experience. The dose-effect relationship of acupuncture is the rule that the acupuncture effect changes with the quantitative change of each key element

and its main contents include: the dose-effect relationship of acupoint prescription

the dose-effect relationship of needling manipulation

and the time-effect relationship of acupuncture.