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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 33 Acupuncture treatment of mild cognitive impairment in clinical thinking Abstract of traditional Chinese medicine for mild cognitive impairment have some understanding of the performance, and the sum of the disease location in the brain, pathogenesis in brain and heart, spleen, kidney and the deficiency-oriented, Yu, phlegm, blood stasis for the standard, actual situation mixed. Acupuncture through a variety of different clinical ideas, choose different methods of treatment have achieved a certain effect, become the important way to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Keywords: Acupuncture mild cognitive impairment Mild cognitive impairment (mild cognitive impairment, MCI) refers to memory impairment, and (or) the other mild cognitive impairment, but the individual’s occupational or social activities of daily living were not affected, but also can not be known medical or mental illness neurological explanation is between normal aging and mild dementia, a clinical state between [1]. 43% of MCI patients, there may be a variety of behavioral and psychological symptoms such as apathy, depression, anxiety, agitation, dysthymic disorder, and irritability etc., MCI seriously disturbed the normal life of the elderly and to increase the pressure on families and caregivers, reducing the old age and their family members and caregivers, the quality of life, some scholars believe that MCI is a form of memory loss, mainly manifested in the determination of when the neuropsychological scores decreased, but not dementia [2], but the prodromal phase of dementia [ 3] or pre-clinical [4]. MCI’s population suffering from some people may be long-term stability, but some people continued to decline in cognitive function and eventually develop dementia [5]. Chinese ancient literature, there is no “mild cognitive impairment” in the records, the literature of traditional Chinese medicine in ancient records of this disease more scattere