Treatise on Febrile Diseases by Zhang Zhongjing discusses many methods for acupuncture and moxi- bustion and is of great guiding significance and practical value in terms of theory and practice. There are six charac- teristics of application : exploring causes by syndrome differentiation and applying the needle based on the syndrome ; tl'eating both exogenous disease and miscellaneous diseases;performing acupuncture for excess syndrome and moxi- bustion for deficiency syndrome;preventing the development and progression of disease;using a comb...