中文摘要：

目的：分析近10年来针灸防治炎症性肠病的临床与机制研究状况，为今后针灸治疗炎症性肠病的临床与穴位研究提供参考依据。方法：对1995—2005年国内期刊的相关论文进行分析，从针灸临床、实验研究两方面进行综述。结果：针灸防治炎症性肠病效果明显，机制研究已取得一定进展，但在科研设计和创新性方面有待于进一步提高。结论：今后，应从针灸临床治疗有效病症着手。研究经穴特异性与影响经穴特异性效应产生的因素，从中总结出共性规律，丰富和发展经穴特异性理论，以指导针灸临床。

英文摘要：

Objective To provide scientific foundations for clinical and acupoints researches on acupuncture for treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases. Methods Review the correlated documents of clinical experimental researches issued from 1995 to 2005, and the clinical and experimental documents about remedy of inflammatory bowel diseases by acupuncture and moxibustion were summarized and analyzed. Results Acupuncture and moxibustion had significant therapeutic effects on inflammatory bowel diseases, and the studies on the mechanisms have achieved some progresses, but the designs and the methods of these studies need to be improved. Conclusion Afterwards, the specificity of acupoints, and factors of influencing the specificity should be studied via effective diseases treated with acupuncture and moxibustion, so as sum up common regularity, rich and develop the theory about specificity of acupoints to guide clinical treatment of acupuncture and moxibustion.