Objective

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To explore the rules of acupuncture point selection in treating neurodermatitis and postherpetic neuralgia with acupuncture from the perspective of “treating different diseases with same method” in the past 5 years based on multi-software collaborative data mining technology.

Methods

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Cross-searching Chinese and English databases （CNKI， Wanfang， VIP， Medline， Embase， Web of Science）， the articles published from January 1， 2018， to December 31， 2022， in journal literature related to acupuncture treating neurodermatitis and postherpetic neuralgia. The literature was screened according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria， Zotero 6.0.26 was used to manage the original literature， Microsoft Excel 16.54 was used to create a database of acupuncture prescriptions and to clean the data entered， and various software was used to perform statistical analysis and to visualize the data.

Results

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In this study， 31 acupuncture prescriptions for neurodermatitis and 34 acupuncture prescriptions for postherpetic neuralgia were included， respectively. Both disease acupoints were topped by the frequency of using Ashi， and both disease acupoints were concentrated on the bladder meridian of foot-

taiyang

except Ashi and the five-

shu

points had the highest percentage of specific acupoints. Both diseases shared the core acupuncture point “Ashi- Xuehai （SP10）- Sanyinjiao （SP6）” and the core paired acupoint was “Xuehai （SP10） -Ashi”. Clustering analysis of high-frequency acupoints in both diseases was performed and each was clustered into three categories， with Ashi clustered into a s

ingle category in both diseases.

Conclusion

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High consistency of acupoints selected in the acupuncture treatment of neurodermatitis and postherpetic neuralgia was consistent with the theory of “treating different diseases with same treatment”， but there are some differences in the compatibility of acupoints， indicating that the two diseases have their own special emphasis in pathogenesis， and the clinically it should be considered with the actual situation to add or reduce the selection of acupoints.