<p style="text-align: center;">LI Li，HU Youping</p><p style="text-align: center;">(1 Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu 610075, China)</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Abstract</strong>:&nbsp; As a rule of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture with economic application, no adverse reactions,&nbsp; lasting&nbsp; effect&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; distinctive&nbsp; characteristics&nbsp; of&nbsp; clinical&nbsp; treatment&nbsp; is&nbsp; easy&nbsp; to&nbsp; be&nbsp; accepted&nbsp; by patients and doctors. Ulcerative colitis is difficult to cure, and easy to relapse。 the World Health Organization treat it as a modern refractory disease. In recent years, acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of ulcerative colitis&nbsp; in&nbsp; the&nbsp; experimental&nbsp; study&nbsp; were&nbsp; reviewed,&nbsp; the&nbsp; experiment&nbsp; mainly&nbsp; from&nbsp; the&nbsp; acupuncture&nbsp; and moxibustion immune regulation, inhibition of apoptosis, regulation of intestinal microecology to study. The study found that acupuncture treatment of this disease has advantages, worthy of promotion, analysis of the current research problems and make recommendations.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Key Words</strong>: Acupuncture, Ulcerative Colitis, Experimental research, Progress</p><p><br/></p>