New book

“High-Tech Acupuncture & Integrative Laser Medicine”

Editors: Gerhard Litscher, Xin-Yan Gao, Lu Wang, Bing Zhu

Pabst Science Publishers

ISBN 978-3-89967-793-5, 200 pages

39 authors from Austria, China, and Germany

Please order at: gerhard.litscher@medunigraz.at; € 50.--

Topics: Teleacupuncture, Sino-European Acupuncture Studies, Laser Needle Medicine, Bioengineering Assessment, Animal and Human Experiments, Science and Practice

This book focuses on the latest innovative aspects of high-tech acupuncture and integrative laser medicine. Special emphasis is given to new methodological and technical investigations, for example results obtained from all kinds of acupuncture innovations (e.g. teleacupuncture) and integrative laser medicine.

Editor (and author)

312. Raith W, Litscher G, Sapetschnig I, Bauchinger S, Ziehenberger E, Müller W, Urlesberger B: Thermographical measuring of the skin temperature using laser needle acupuncture in preterm neonates. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med; 2012; 2012: 614210.

Head of the Stronach Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, of the Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and of the TCM Research Center Graz at the Medical University of Graz, Doctor of technical and Doctor of medical sciences, several research stays and international lectures, about 570 scientific publications, partly on basic acupuncture research, author and/or editor of eleven books, currently editor-in-chief and/or member of the editorial board of 23 international scientific journals (e.g. one of the Editors and Lead Guest Editor of Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM), Editor-in-chief of the Internet Journal of Alternative Medicine (IJAM), Associate Editor for Medical Acupuncture, Associate Editor of the Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies (JAMS),). Member and Representative of Austria of the Parliament of the European Medical Laser Association (EMLA). Prof. Litscher’s special interests are computer-based Neuromonitoring and High-Tech Acupuncture Research. He is also Visiting Professor of the Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, and of the Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China.

Co-Editors (and authors, in alphabetical order)

Head of the Department of Physiology, Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.

Stronach Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and TCM Research Center Graz at the Medical University of Graz, Visiting Professor of the Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China.

Director of the Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.