Taking the heat-sensitive phenomenon in clinical moxibustion as the starting point, the paper has explored the laws of occurrence of the phenomenon, traced the original definition of acupoints, put forward the theory of acupoint sensitization, innovated the HSM technology and evaluated its efficacy based on evidence, conducted basic research, built a new theoretic system of heat-sensitive moxibustion, and finally opened up a new world of heat-sensitive functional regulation of human body surface. Moreover, this paper makes an attempt to explain that improving clinical efficacy is the eternal research theme of acupuncture clinicians, and inheritance and innovation are the main directions of maintaining and promoting the characteristics and advantages of acupuncture & moxibustion. Meanwhile, it also attempts to explain the general law of clinical research of TCM:originating from the clinical-based on the classic-inheriting & innovating-improving the efficacy-improving the theoryapplying to the clinic.

heat-sensitive moxibustion  /  moxibustion  /  acupoint