Modern technological developments and are increasingly likely to be used in traditional medicine. The thin acupuncture, needles were replaced by Chinese laser beam. The use of laser is very safe and comfortable. This does not affect the skin and tissue, also does not cause pain. After surgery there are complications associated with fracture of the needle, hematomas, or localized infections. Laserpuncture can be used where the use of traditional acupuncture is impossible - in the case of purulent skin diseases, where the puncture could lead to spread of the infection. This method can be used in children and adults who fear needles pricking. An additional advantage is laserotherapy duration of the procedure, which is short. Irradiation of one point is from several to tens of seconds.

The laser treatment is, simply speaking, treatment of light. The curative properties of light was known in antiquity. Sunbathing is used to treat diseases of the skin, internal organs, nervous disorders, mental as well as for convalescence and rehabilitation. Father of artificial phototherapy is a Nobel Prize winner, Niels Ryberg Finsen, the creator of arc lamp emitting ultraviolet rays. But it was the invention of the laser in 1960, became the impetus for the flowering of phototherapy. The laser beam penetrates well into tissues, to any depth, and exactly where it wants to address.
Laserpuncture (as well as traditional acupuncture) has analgesic, anti-inflammatory and anti. Stimulates the activity of epithelial cells and accelerates wound healing post-injury, burn, ulcers and bone fractures. Positive effect on the immune system, improving resistance to infectious diseases. Indications for laserotherapy are the same as for traditional acupuncture. Number of treatments depends on the disease, the length of its duration, patient age, thickness and color of the skin and the individual characteristics of the patient.
But which method is more effective - whether the traditional acupuncture using a laser? Undoubted advantage is its non-invasive laserotherapy and lack pozabiegowych complications that can occur with traditional acupuncture. But there are cases where the use of laser does not produce better health, help for the traditional puncture.

The text of the book is based on acupuncture treatment, Dr. Henry Operacza. PZWL, Warsaw 1997.