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Treatment according to pattern identification (Bianzheng Lunzhi) is the important method for both TCM and acupuncture. Today, the method mostly focuses on the nature of disease, instead of the place. This character is more compatible for TCM than for acupuncture, and makes the gap between the theory and clinic in acupuncture finally. To solve the problem, research in the theory of pattern identification is necessary at first. In Huangdineijing, the most important classic of TCM, hundreds of diseases are discussed, and pattern identification methods are the important parts in these discussion. What significant is, most of the diseases are treated by acupuncture. That means we can find ample evidence to rebuilt the pattern identification method for acupuncture in Huangdineijing.In this article,7 diseases, including headache, lumbar pain, cardiac pain, cough, fever diseases, malaria and arthromyodynia, are chosen for the research to find out the Bianzheng method, which is obscure in Huangdineijing. At the same time, the reason, process and treatment of theses diseases are mentioned, as the assistant parts for the pattern identification method. In Huangdineijing, these diseases are analyzed in the follow ways:1. Headache. The most important way to identify patterns for headache is the foot-6-meridian method. By the meridian's position, foot-3-yang-meridian headaches can be told from each other. To differentiate foot-3-yin-meridian headaches, symptoms and signs are the better evidences.2. Lumbar pain. It is a typical disease to make use of the meridian pattern identification method. The division of different patterns of lumbar pain relies on the symptoms and signs too.3. Cardiac pain. Also the zangfu-vicera pattern identification method is used in the first eye, this disease adopts the meridian pattern identification method mostly. The evidence for pattern identification is the symptoms of zangfu-vicera and meridians.4. Cough. It is a typical use of zangfu-vicera pattern identification method. Cough is separated into 5-zang-patterns and 6-fu-patterns by the zangfu-vicera symptoms.5. Fever diseases. At least 4 methods are used in these diseases, such as meridian, zangfu-vicera and body-structure pattern identification methods etc. The division based on the position and symptoms mostly. 6. Malaria. Meridian and zangfu-vicera pattern identification methods are the 2 main methods used in malaria. Mostly, the body symptoms belong to the yang-meridian patterns, and the viscera symptoms pertain to the yin-meridian patterns.7. Arthromyodynia. It is greatly different from other diseases. The body-structure pattern identification method has more use than other methods in Arthromyodynia.Through the research above, meridian pattern identification is based on the position and symptoms of meridians. The symptoms of zangfu-viscera can be used as the evidence sometimes too. For the zangfu-vicera pattern identification method, all the symptoms of zangfu-viscera, the position and symptoms of meridians are important evidence.The meridian pattern identification can be used in clinic straightly. It pays more attention to the meridian and position, instead of the acupoints. On the other hand, the result of zangfu-vicera pattern identification needs to convert into meridian disease firstly. Then some specific acupoints are used to treat the disease. In some sense, meridian pattern identification is more useful than the zangfu-vicera pattern identification method.This article has a deeply analysis to the pattern identification method of 7 diseases in Huangdineijing. It is valuable for the pattern identification research of acupuncture today. At the same time, it will help to find the rule of acupuncture development, and enhance to improve the effect of acupuncture in clinic.