Objective To explore the relationship between acupoints and effects implied in the results of acupuncture animal experimental studies. Methods CNKI

the Wanfang Data Base and the China Biology Medicine disc were searched for the literature of animal experiments on acupuncture. The relevant information included in the literatures including acupuncture points and corresponding effect data

namely the function score was extracted to establish a database. The frequency of function score

acupuncture points and the co-occurrence frequency of the two were calculated and the co-occurrence status was analyzed by network graph. Results A total of 1635 articles were included in the study

involving 223 acupuncture points and 164 related function score indicators. The top 5 function score indicators were memory deficit（417）

learning disorder（399）

pain（332）

neurological manifestation（263）and neurobehavioral manifestation（183）. The top 5 acupuncture points were "Baihui"（GV20）（580）

"Zusanli"（ST36）（495）

"Dazhui"（GV14）（236）

"Sanyinjiao"（SP6）（166） and "Shenshu"（BL23）（153）. The inter-column statistics between acupuncture points and functional scores were taken to obtain the frequency of mutual co-occurrence of the two and to construct a network diagram of co-occurrence relationship of the two. The top 3 node degree of function scores were memory deficit（84）

learning disorder（81） and neurological manifestation（79）.The top 3 node degree of acupuncture points were "Zusanli"（ST36）（81）

"Baihui"（GV20）（51） and "Sanyinjiao"（SP6）（48）. Conclusion The experimental effects of acupoints seem to be interlinked with the theoretically basic functions of the acupoints. The acupoints with the same indication were basically consistent. The acupoints with different indications seem to have remarkable difference.