<p style="text-align: center;">ZHANG Lida¹, HAN Wei ², ZHANG Ling², ZHANG Guoqing^-2</p><p style="text-align: center;">(1 College of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and massage, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine,Hefei 230038,China;2 The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Chinese Medicine,Hefei 230061,China)</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Abstract</strong>:&nbsp; The acupuncture method of &quot;acupuncture therapy of dredging Governor Vessel and regulating mentality&quot;&nbsp; is&nbsp; the essence of&nbsp; Professor&nbsp; Zhang&nbsp; Daozong&#39;s&nbsp; clinical experience&nbsp; of&nbsp; fifty years&nbsp; in the&nbsp; Second Affiliated&nbsp; Hospital&nbsp; of Anhui&nbsp; University&nbsp; of&nbsp; traditional&nbsp; Chinese&nbsp; medicine,&nbsp; a&nbsp; famous&nbsp; traditional&nbsp; Chinese medicine. The acupuncture and moxibustion method of &quot;acupuncture therapy of dredging Governor Vessel and regulating mentality&quot; is use to adjust the soul, by Acupuncture in Du and their branches etc. in order to achieve the purpose of preventing and curing diseases. In recent years, a large number of literature reports on the clinical application and mechanism of acupuncture treatment of encephalopathy, reflecting the unique advantages of acupuncture therapy in the treatment of encephalopathy. In this paper, the clinical application and mechanism of acupuncture for regulating the mind and regulating the mind to treat encephalopathy are summarized as follows. The purpose is to provide reference and ideas for further research on the clinical application and mechanism of the method of acupuncture therapy.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Key words</strong>: acupuncture, acupuncture therapy, encephalopathy</p><p><br/></p>