Acupuncture De-qi : From Characterization to Underlying Mechanism

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De-qi refers to the participant’s subjective sensations and objective body responses as well as the acupuncturist’s perceptions while the acupuncturist needles certain acupoints in the participant’s body.

In recent years, De-qi is getting increasing attention of the researchers and many efforts have been made to understand its mechanism.

By the broad literature survey, this paper explores the subjective De-qi sensation of the patients, its influencing factors, and the resulting physiological responses.

The purpose of this paper is expected to find out a possible mechanism of De-qi and to provide certain scientific evidence for acupuncture fundamental research and clinical practice.