"醒脑开窍"针刺疗法是我国著名中医药学家和教育家、中国工程院院士、国医大师、石学敏中医发展基金会理事长石学敏教授于1972年为治疗中风病创立的针刺疗法。该疗法临床应用已达40余年，在中风病等多种疾病治疗中确实显示出其卓越的疗效。通过大量的临床观察和基础实验研究，对机体多系统疾病均有良好的调节作用。该疗法不仅限于中风病的应用，一切脑性麻痹或瘫痪(如小儿脑瘫、一氧化碳中毒和脑外伤后等)；严重的疼痛(如神经痛、内脏痛、创伤痛和癌瘤痛等)；精神疾病(如癫狂痫、抑郁症、百合病和癔病等)；还有部分其他系统(如尿崩症、遗尿和二便失控等疾病)均有非常好的疗效。从脑主神明的认识；"醒脑开窍"针刺疗法的提出与确立；创立中风病机新理论等方面，并探讨中国工程院院士、国医大师石学敏教授对中医脑病的新贡献。

Consciousness-restoring resuscitation acupuncture method (Xingnao Kaiqiao) was created to treat apoplexy in 1972 by China′s famous traditional Chinese medicine expert and educator Professor Shi Xuemin, member of Chinese Academy of Engineering and the National Physician Masters.The method has been applied in clinical practice for more than 40 years, and has shown its remarkable curative effects in treating diseases including stroke.A large number of clinical observation and experimental studies show that the method makes positive adjustment to body systems with diseases.What′s more, application of this method is not limited to treating stroke. In fact, it shows significant curative effect in treating most cerebral palsy or paralysis (such as infantile cerebral palsy, carbon monoxide poisoning, cerebral trauma etc.), severe pains (such as neuralgia, visceral pain, injury pain and cancer pain, etc.), mental illness (such as manic depressive psychosis, depression, lily disease and hysteria, etc.), and diseases in other systems(such as diabetes insipidus, enuresis and incontinence, etc.). This paper discusses Professor Shi Xuemin′s creative contribution to the traditional Chinese medicine treatment of encephalopathy, from the aspects ofthe understanding of " brain governing consciousness" , establishing of the consciousness-restoring resuscitation acupuncture method, and founding of the new theory of pathogenesis on stroke.