Cerebralvascular disease has already become one of the serious illnesses that threatens human health. Along with the development of medicine, although the therapeutic method harvested huge progress, currently ideal therapeutic methods are lacking. The conventional acupuncture has definite therapeutic effect on cerebropathy. Clinical practice and various animal experiments confirmed that acupuncture could alleviate the pathologic damage after cerebral ischemic injury and promote the nerve function recovery. Past studies showed that the role of acupuncture in treating cerebral ischemia is realized through alleviating post-ischemic neuron necrosis, while recent study discovered that acupuncture has inhibitory effect on post-ischemia induced neuronal necrosis(1), which brought the mechanism of acupuncture in treating cerebral ischemia from the biochemical and metabolical level to the molecular biologic level. The studies revealed that after cerebral ischemia, many genes were induced to express themselves, protein product they coded directly or indirectly participated in the regulation of post-cerebral ischemia apoptosis of neuron, some promoting the apoptosis, while others inhibiting apoptosis with some of the function still unclear. The anti-apoptotic effect of acupuncture is accomplished through regulating the relevant apoptotic gene expression(2), and now it is reviewed as follows: