From the perspective of evidence integration and utilization in guidelines

based on the carrier variety

medical experience is composed of the literature on the practical experience of medical scholars recorded in the ancient and modern time

and the individual opinions in the expert consensus. These two types of carrier for medical experience play the different roles in the key steps during formulating the acupuncture-moxibustion guidelines. Three values are summarized

named being conductive to centering the key clinical questions and strongly representing these questions; being used as a basis to judge the clinical applicability of the recommended regimens; and facilitating the recommendation.