Objective To explore the effects of bamboo circle ginger moxibustion combined with midnight-noon ebb-low meridian tapping on lumbar spine function, pain level and negative emotions in patients with Qi stagnation and blood stasis type lumbar disc herniation.Methods A total of 96 patients with Qi stagnation and blood stasis type lumbar disc herniation were randomly divided into 48 cases each in the control group and the intervention group.The control group was treated with conventional acupuncture, and the intervention group was treated with bamboo circle ginger moxibustion combined with midnight-noon ebb-low meridian tapping.Both groups were treated continuously for 2 weeks.The lumbar spine function, Chinese medicine symptom score, pain level, negative emotion and levels of inflammatory indexes were compared between the two groups before and after 2 weeks of the treatment, respectively.Results The Japanese Orthopaedic Association score of the intervention group was higher than that of control group, the Oswestry Disability Index, Chinese medicine symptom score, pain intensity, score of the Hamilton Depression Scale, score of the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale and the levels of interleukin (IL-6 ), C-reative protei (CRP), erythrocyte sediment rate (ESR) of the intervention group were lower than those of the control group after the treatment (all P＜0.05).Conclusion The use of bamboo circle ginger moxibustion combined with midnight-noon ebb-low meridian tapping can effectively promote the reco-very of lumbar spine function in patients with lumbar disc herniation of the type of Qi stagnation and blood stasis, promote the subsidence of inflammatory reactions, reduce pain and alleviate negative emotions.