古代针灸方是最能反映针灸治疗特色的内容，也是针灸循证研究时不可忽视的证据来源之一。通过对古代头痛针方文献的整理发现，古代针方文献的重复传抄与改编现象多见，由于原始文献与间接文献价值不同，所以需要对针方文献进行溯源，以辨识同源文献，确定现存首见文献并厘清其流传脉络；同时由腧穴主治改编和针灸歌赋注解或改编的内容常易混淆为临床针方，还应注意将腧穴主治的改编内容加以鉴别，并予以排除；将针灸歌赋注解或改编来的内容归于相应歌赋流传脉络中。“,”Ancient acupuncture and moxibustion prescriptions are one of the sources for evidence-based acupuncture research, representing the techniques features in treatment. This paper examines and analyses the literature of ancient acupuncture and moxibustion prescriptions for headache. It was found that repeated adaption and private changes of ancient acupuncture prescriptions was common. It was also found that the literature which reported the adaption of the indications of acupoints and the annotation of acupuncture and moxibustion in the form of poetry was often confused with the clinical acupuncture prescriptions. It is essential to trace the literature sources of ancient acupuncture prescriptions and to confirm the earliest documents extant for their authenticity and inheritance. In this sense, they are the two steps for review of the literature of ancient acupuncture prescriptions.