By taking acupuncture and polycystic ovary syndrome as the key words to search in CNKI and PubMed database, the animal experiments and clinical research about polycystic ovary syndrome treated with acupuncture are found. Animal experiment results show that acupuncture can regulate the hypothalamic pituitary ovarian axis, increase insulin sensitivity, decrease the serum androgen level and improve the endometrial receptivity for polycystic ovary syndrome. Clinical studies have found that polycystic ovary syndrome can be treated with simple acupuncture, electro acupuncture, acupuncture and medicine, and literature has proved that acupuncture has good effect on polycystic ovary syndrome.