Acupuncture mechanisms of action, embedded in the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, are characterized bycomplex and multifactorial systems which involves multiple correlations, responding to chaotic patterns of evolution.The microcomponents of these patterns may assume many shapes, varying in consonance with the environment, and behaveaccordingly to them.As most of these elements operate in different time scales, some kind of procedure to measure these alterations in a realtime basis must be considered and adopted.One of the possibilities to deal with such dynamic multi scale systems is to monitor the evolution of procedures with the aidof infrared thermoimaging, which enables us to document the changes in the temperature for regions of interest (ROI) onthe body, before and after any clinical procedure, e.g. acute effects to acupuncture needling.The information gathered by such a device may be a key approach in the research involving TCM groundings, presenting newhorizons to be explored.
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