Thus, acupuncture, moxibustion, and today laserpuncture come to help and fight against illness, and, more specifically, spinal cord injuries (SCI) as far as laserpuncture is concerned.

laserpuncture is directed to the “Huan” membrane, which seems to be the somatic conjunctive tissue, which would hold the nervous structures through which runs the propagated sensation along the canals (PSC). These free nervous endings are close to the pre-capillary vessels. We believe that they carry a neurotransmitter, which is unknown but probably from a histaminic origin.

What is the PSC? It is the privileged moment when the needle or the laser beam provides the force life, and the patient feels various sensations such as “pain, hot, cold, tingling, numbness or pins and needles.” All of these sensations are felt by patients with SCI treated by laserpuncture.

The Chinese tradition believes that there are three different speeds of PSC helping to balance the organism:

1. The somatic nervous system, whose propagation is fast;

2. The autonomous nervous system, whose propagation is slow,

3. The channel network (acupuncture and neo-acupunture), whose propagation is even slower and through which the PSC runs.

This PSC disappears in the case of complete spinal cord transection; it seems that laserpuncture re-establishes this PSC.

laserpuncture relates the channel networks to acupuncture and neo-acupuncture points – highlighted through our research – and to dermatomes levels, which match cutaneous spinal cord segments – cervical, thoracic or lumbar segments. laserpuncture re-establishes a dialog between the brain and the part of the body below the injury. Many results obtained show it, but it would be too long to present them here [2, 3].

The notion of yin and yang is also a parameter that should be taken into account. Indeed, they balance each other in order to maintain the individual's health condition. Our understanding of the Nei Jing Su Wen (the canon book of acupuncture) suggests that only yang can vary while yin has a set “value” from the beginning.

Moreover, we think that acupuncture (and more generally the Chinese medicine based on energy) and ayurveda in India are related to each other because they originated from a common background. We believe that only migrations can explain the fact that one medicine is to be found in China and the other in India. It thus raises the issue of origin, i.e. this global medicine based on energy would have parted in two at a given time. Such hypothesis will have to be investigated so as to collect the smallest similarities and show a common basis.

A thesis in medicine has already been written on laserpuncture by Dr Cecile Jame-Collet, M.D., Faculté de Médecine Léonard de Vinci, Paris Nord [5]. Numerous works combine laser and stem cells, or laser and carpal tunnel syndrome, or the treatment of pain [1, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13], and use of magnetic fields in SCI problems [14]. 

The laserpuncture machine is unique worldwide and was developed according to my specific specifications by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers in Cluny (ENSAM) and financed with grants from the French government (Bourgogne Réseau).