Abstract: In this thesis, it made a splenic asthenia modeling by injection of reserpine. The clinical symptom, body weight and the part of digestive function indicator were observed. And it made a study about effect of acupuncture treatment on the observed indexes. The results showed that the body weight significantly decreased (P<0.05) after the dog appeared splenic asthenia syndrome. After acupuncture treatment the dog with splenic asthenia syndrome for 7 days, the activity of pepsin and trypsin and the contents of motillin significantly increased (P<0.05), but the contents of gastrin and somatostatin significantly decreased (P<0.05), compared without treated splenic asthenia dogs. The finding showed that it had an effect of acupuncture treatment splenic asthenia dogs in Zusanli and spleen points on improvement of clinical symptoms, weight gain and restoration of normal digestive function.

Key words: splenic asthenia; digestive function; acupuncture; dogs