It has been found by sorting out and analyzing ancient and modern doctors’ green tortoise exploring point acupuncture manipulation that ancient and modern doctors use Xu Feng's manipulation as the foundation and make some innovations on that b asis and according to their own clinical experiences. The clinical application range of different doctors’ green tortoise exploring point acupuncture manipulation is proposed by summarizing recent over 10 years’ clinical reports and the authors’ clinical practice. It is considered that the shortcomings of green tortoise exploring point acupuncture manipulation are lack of manipulation standardization and modern mechanism study and that manipulation standardization should be closely connected with clinical practice for further application and popularization.