| | Author/year (reference) | Cases | Age/sex | Disease treated | Punctured site | Practitioner | Follow-up |
| | Jiang, 1980 [117] | 1 | 54/F | Gastroptosis | RN15 | Not specified | Recovered | |
Cai and Wang, 1982 [118] | 1 | 41/M | Numbness and pain of shoulders and chest | Shoulder and back | Not specified | Recovered (1 mo) | | Zheng and Pang, 1983 [119] | 1 | 21/M | Stiff neck | GB21 | Not specified | Recovered after surgery (1 mo) | | Gao, 1984 [120] | 1 | 50/F | Chest and back pain | Back | Factory doctor | Recovered (12 d) | |
Duan and Wang, 1984 [29] | 2 | 26/F | Bronchitis | GB21, BL13, EX-B2 | Not specified | Recovered (3 d) | | 50/F | Bronchitis | GB21, BL13 | Not specified | Recovered (7 d) | | Chang, 1984 [121] | 1 | 33/M | Back pain | Back | Country doctor | Recovered (19 d) | | Yan, 1985 [122] | 1 | 55/F | Chronic bronchitis | RN22 | Health center | Recovered (16 d) | | Hu, 1986 [123] | 1 | 58/F | Pulmonary heart disease | BL13 | Not specified | Recovered (13 d) | | Zhang, 1986 [124] | 1 | 52/M | Cervical pain | Left shoulder | Factory doctor | Recovered (20 d) | | Yang, 1986 [6] | 1 | 57/F | Chronic asthmatic disease | BL12 | Not specified | Dead | | Jin, 1987 [125] | 1 | 26/F | Shoulder pain | SI13 | Acupuncturist | Recovered (9 d) | | Song and Xu, 1987 [126] | 1 | 60/F | Shoulder pain | GB21 | Not specified | Not specified | | Ruan et al., 1992 [127] | 1 | 35/F | Hysteria | Supraclavicular fossa | Acupuncturist | Recovered (10 d) | |
Zhang et al., 1992 [38] |
3 | 53/F | Chronic bronchitis and emphysema | BL18 |
Not specified | Recovered (1 wk) | | 65/F | Cough | RN22 | Recovered (1 mo) | | 21/M | Spasmodic torticollis | LI17 | Recovered (2 wk) | | Lu, 1993 [128] | 1 | 60/M | Cough, chest, and back pain | Back | Acupuncturist | Recovered (1 wk) | | Xia, 1993 [129] | 1 | 60/M | Back pain caused by hyperplastic spondylitis | BL18, BL23 | Acupuncturist | Recovered (10 d) | | Li and Chen, 1997 [130] | 1 | 65/F | Shoulder pain | Scapular region | Clinic | Recovered (5 d) | | Ma and Zhang, 1997 [131] | 1 | 48/M | Neck and shoulder pain | Shoulder and back | Clinic | Recovered (1 wk) | | Wang, 1999 [7] | 1 | 47/F | Shoulder and leg pain | LI17 | Not specified | Dead | | Song and Wu, 2001 [9] | 1 | 45/F | Scapulohumeral periarthritis | GB21, SI11 | Hospital | Recovered (1 wk) | | Qin and Ao, 2003 [132] | 1 | 55/M | Intercostal neuralgia | The sixth intercostal space on the anterior axillary line | Factory doctor | Recovered (2 wk) | | Zha, 2006 [133] | 1 | 32/M | Chronic hepatitis B | Chest and back | Itinerant doctor | Recovered (14 d) | | Gan et al., 2006 [134] | 1 | 30/M | Neck and back pain | Back | Individual clinic | Not specified | | Huo et al., 2007 [135] | 1 | 39/M | Chest and back pain | Not specified | Not specified | Recovered after surgery (7 d) | | Liu, 2007 [136] | 1 | 50/M | Cervical and back pain | Back | Individual clinic | Not specified | | Ma, 2007 [137] | 1 | 35/F | Shoulder pain | Not specified | Individual clinic | Recovered | | Zhang and Zhao, 2012 [138] | 1 | 65/F | Cervical spondylopathy | GB21 | Acupuncturist | Recovered (10 d) |
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