Guan's acupuncture technique is a kind of special acupuncture methods developed and improved by GUAN Zheng-zhai. It has unique curative effects on hysterical paralysis, schizophrenia, madness, epilepsy and traumatic paraplegia, etc. This acupuncture technique has the characteristics of "deep" "transparent" "moving" and "sensing". The acupoints selection is different from that of twelve meridian acupoints. The deep insertion of acupuncture needles is applied at acupoints located in the wrist joint, ankle joint and below, while the penetration needling method is applied at acupoints located in the area which has relatively thick muscles, and where yin-meridian and yang-meridian are symmetric with each other. The horizontal and deep connection of acupoints and the adjustment effect of qi-blood and yin-yang are emphasized during treatment.
Keywords: Guanʼs acupuncture technique; Guanʼs special point; rules of acupoints selection; twelve meridian acupoints.