The authors described clinical acupoint heat-sensitization phenomena

expounded relationship between characteristics of acupoint heat-sensitization and clinical effects of moxibustion therapy

and put forward the concept of acupoint sensitization.It is considered that human acupoints exit at two states

a resting state and a sensitization state.When human body is at disease state

acupoints on the body surface might be sensitized

and the sensitized acupoints show “great response to small stimulation” by external correlative stimulation;Acupoint heat-sensitization is a type of acupoint sensitization

and the best stimulation of “heat”-sensitized acupoint is heat stimulation of moxibustion.Therapeutic effect of stimulation at heat-sensitized acupoint is better than acupuncture at the acupoint at resting state.Moxibustion at heat-sensitized acupoints can easily trigger needling sensation propagating along the channel

indicating that arrival of qi produces effectiveness of moxibustion.