Abstract:

The antagonism has been found by more and more researchers after a large number of studies on the synergistic effect of acupoints are investigated.Because of its hidden nature，the antagonism is not easy to be found and measured.Through the nature of acupoints，acupuncture technique，neural mechanism conduction，humoral regulation and the activation of brain regions，new ideas and methods are developed to study the compatibility and antagonism effects of acupoints.But the nature of acupoints is different from the nature of traditional Chinese medicine，which has a role of two-way adjustment.The nature of acupoints are also related with acupuncture manipulation and disease conditions.Acupuncture technique is very important in the study of acupuncture effect.Electric acupuncture can produce different effects because of different frequencies and waveforms.It can't be excluded that two acupoints can produce the antagonism effect under a certain frequency，and in another frequency it may produce synergistic effect.The effect of acupuncture includes neural mechanism conduction and humoral regulation.The compatibility of acupoints makes the opposite effect between nerve reflection or body fluids reflection，which can also reveal antagonism effect in appearance.Functional magnetic resonance imaging（FMRI）technology provides a good research method for synergism or antagonism of the compatibility of acupoints.At the same time the mechanism of antagonism effect of acupoints has not been fully proved，but it must be objective existence.As the mechanism of acupuncture is not clear，it cannot be concluded by a single standard that the acupoints have antagonism effects.Only that in specific intervention conditions，the combination of acupoints shows antagonism effect.

Key words: Acupoints science, Drug antagonism, Acupuncture point, Technique