Selection of clinical evaluation index for acupuncture analgesia

Acupuncture has a definite curative in treating pain.Pain is a subjective feeling,which is not easy to be measured because of lack of quantifiable index.Besides,because evaluation measures for acupuncture analgesia are not unanimous,it is lack of comparability among the different clinical researches.The author summarized the clinical evaluation measures of acupuncture analgesia which are used in clinical commonly,and considered that the clinical study on acupuncture analgesia should be globally evaluated from the extent of pain,complication symptoms and life quality on the basis of determining the nature and xing quantity of the subjective index.