The emerging oating acupuncture therapy is one of the most innovative acupuncture therapy recently,with an exact e cacy to treat clinical pain.However,from current research of oating acupuncture therapy,several major misunderstandings and confusions exist.Studying from the perspective of 'Acupuncture needle reaches disease location',this paper integrates traditional Chinese medicine theory,and aims to promoting the development of the traditional Chinese medicine theory of oating acupuncture therapy.