Acupuncture is a critical part of Chinese Traditional medicine, and its efficacy has been proved by long-term clinical practice. However, the function effect on the neural system and mechanism of acupuncture manipulation (MA) is still unclear. The paper explores the mechanism of lifting-thrusting manipulations of acupuncture from an electroencephalogram (EEG) perspective. An experiment is implemented that acupuncture at Quchi point (LI11) is stimulated with two different manipulations (reinforcing and reducing manipulation), and EEG was collected during the stimulation. Then EEG features of brain rhythm are calculated to analyze the response of different acupuncture manipulation before and after stimulation. The research shows that compared with the pre-acupuncture period to the post-acupuncture period, the energy of the EEG signal decreased in the theta rhythm and increased in beta rhythm. Overall, this paper provides an insight into the quantification of brain electrical activity response of acupuncture manipulation in Qu Chi acupoint. The research results could present a quantitative study method for the neural response of MA stimulation.
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