With the increasing attention and research on acupuncture and moxibustion at home and abroad，the efficacy of acupuncture and moxibustion has gradually been widely recognized，but there are also some large sample studies which show that there is no significant difference between the efficacy of acupuncture and placebo acupuncture.The main reason is that there is no accepted method of placebo-acupuncture control，which has affected the further development of acupuncture to a certain extent.Therefore，by searching the domestic and foreign literature，this paper summarizes the commonly used placebo-acupuncture control methods in clinical research，analyses their advantages and disadvantages，and puts forward some improvement ideas，in order to trigger further thinking on the design of placebo-acupuncture in clinical trials of acupuncture and moxibustion，and carry out high-quality research more in line with the specificity of acupuncture and moxibustion to objectively evaluate its efficacy.