OBJECTIVETo introduce to a new clinical therapy Internal Classic.

METHODSAccording to the theory about soft tissue diseases of twelve regular channels in The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic, "The pressure pain point was selected as needled point", deeply needling with many needles to reach the bone and tendon combined with moxibustion at surroundings of the joint of lesion was adopted and the mechanism of silver needle warming therapy in treatment of soft tissue diseases was investigated.

RESULTSThis therapy had functions of warmly dredging channels, activating blood circulation and alleviating pain, relaxing muscles and tendons, and promoting activity of joints, which were stronger and lasted longer timeas compared with general simple acupuncture. Particularly, it had obvious analgesic effect on pain syndrome induced by chronic refractory soft tissue diseases. It is indicated that the mechanism is mainly eliminating aseptic inflammation, increasing local blood supply, relaxing muscular spasm, so as to stop pain caused by inflammation, ischemia and spasm.