Objective To analyze and summarize the characteristics and rules of acupoint selection in the clinical literature of simple obesity treated with acupoint catgut embedding. Methods We searched the clinical literature of simple obesity treated with acupoint catgut embedding was published in Chinese and English databases in the past 10 years by electronic retrieval system,and analyzed its common acupoints,meridians,distributions,specific points and the rules of acupoints selection. Results According to the inc...