Clinical data has showed that in many diseases thermograms have typical acupoints. This fact allows developing new direction in general medicine - thermovisual acupuncture reflexodiagnostics (TAR).

First clinical application of TAR was the method of early diagnosing of secondary T-cell immunodeficiency syndrome.

It was found that, in an immunodeficiency condition, on thermograms is detected an area of decreasing temperature in acupoints located above the thymus and along the Spleen Channel on the foot.

The diagnostic criteria of immunodeficiency syndrome is the decreasing of temperature above one of these areas with a gradient higher than 0,6°C. In a series of experiments, it was detected a strong correlation of thermovisual signs with immune status. Moreover, in the cases where infrared thermography detected an immunodeficiency condition but blood analysis were in a normal range, patients showed clinical manifestations of immunodeficiency, such as recurrent infections, frequent cold, chronic and latent infections.

Thus, TAR allows performing early pre-laboratory diagnostics of the immunodeficiency condition.

So far, TAR criteria for more than 20 diseases and pathological conditions have been elaborated, including:

• secondary T-cell immunodeficiency condition;

• intracranial hypertension;

• cerebral astenia (chronic fatigue syndrome);

• bronchial asthma;

• infection of the urinary tract;

• vegetative neurosis;

• diskinesia of biliary ducts;

• acute and chronic tonsillitis.

Good repeatability of infrared data has made acupuncture SCIENTIFIC ACUPUNCTURE