Cognitive impairment is a common complication after stroke, which is easy to cause initiative, compliance and curative effect of rehabilitation treatment, and increase the lifetime disability rate and mortality rate. This paper reviews the mechanism of acupuncture treatment of post-stroke cognitive impairment in recent years, and reviews acupuncture from the aspects of improving cerebral microcirculation, promoting neural function recovery, regulating inflammatory response and apoptosis, improving synaptic plasticity, regulating intestinal flora, etc. so as to provide reference for acupuncture treatment of post-stroke cognitive impairment related research.
Li et al. (Thu,) studied this question.