*2.4. Key Clinical Question*

Acupuncture, pharmacopuncture, herbal medicine, Tuina manual therapy, moxibustion, thread-embedding acupuncture (TEA), and cupping were evaluated as KM interventions. The effects of single treatment, combination treatment, and differences in the effect

according to the technique of the same treatment method were set for each intervention as three categories of clinical questions.

In the comparative intervention, the active control group included all interventions actually used for therapeutic purposes in Western medicine, and the category of conventional treatments applied as a combination therapy encompassed all the current KM and Western medicine interventions actually used for therapeutic purposes.
