Herbal Medicine: Open Access

Thermography as a method to monitor effects of acupuncture treatment

9^th International Conference on Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine
August 20-21, 2018 Dublin, Ireland

Michal Urgacz

Thermo Medica, Poland

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Herb Med

DOI: 10.21767/2472-0151-C1-003

Abstract

The body temperaure is a natural indicator of human condition, that is why temperature measurment is the most common test performed in Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. Abnormal skin temperature is a sign of illness. Temperature imbalance could be caused by blood stagnation, vasoconstriction and inflammatory states. Each treatment should be focused on elimination of this imbalance. The whole process of healing can be monitored by infrared imaging medical thermography. Medical thermography is a fast, passive, non-contact and non-invasive method of exemplifying body temperature. This method gives possibilities to track all temperature changes which are caused by treatment such as acupuncture. Acupuncture cause immune response and vasodilatation of the treated area which is visible as the temperature increase. That is why whole process could be perfectly monitored by thermography. The best monitoring effects are visible with the usage of distal acupuncture. This method does not implement additional distribution during imaging because needles are inserted in distal areas. The keynote of this speech will focus on lower limbs treatment monitored by thermal imaging. It will trace the process of healing and advantages of needling and thermography fusion.

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