OBJECTIVETo promote the study on standardization of attitude of selecting point and posture of nee dling, so as to ensure safety of acupuncture and increase clinical therapeutic effect.

METHODSStudy, analyze and clinically test and verify on literature of past dynasties, and differentiate and analyze differences and significances of attitude of selecting point and posture of needling, indicate the reasonable parts of ancient and modern various theories, and relative contents should be purified, corrected in time, and put forward a proposal on the standardization.

CONCLUSIONAttitude of selecting point and posture of needling have close relation and have a certain difference; the experience of predecessors should be explored and systematized, and present confusion and out-of-date contents should be purified and relative standards should be established as early as possibly.