In this series 3 methods were used to treathyperthyroidism:acupuncture,antithyroid drug(tapazole)and combined therapeutic acupunctureplus antithyroid drug)methods and comparative stu-dies on their therapeutic efficacy were made.Thecombined therapeutic method was found to have theadvantages of high effectiveness, shorter therapeuticcourses, less adverse side effects and low recurrencerates. In the combined therapeutic group, the overallefficacy rate was 95.9% and the recurrence rate was29.6%, with a difference of obvious statistical signifi- In this series 3 methods were used to treathyperthyroidism: acupuncture, antithyroid drug (tapazole) and combined therapeutic acupuncture plus antithyroid drug) methods and comparative stu-dies on their therapeutic efficacy were made. The combined therapeutic method was found to have theadvantages of high effectiveness, shorter In the combined therapeutic group, the overallefficacy rate was 95.9% and the recurrence rate was29.6%, with a difference of obvious statistical signifi- cation