Research on infrared radiation spectrum of moxibustion and acupoints in human body in traditional Chinese medicine

Using lock-phase amplification technology, we detected infrared radiation spectrum from the area less than 1cm² of human body surface. Though there were obvious differences in the primitive spectrum and in intensity of the infrared radiation between different human bodies or different acupoints of the same subject, there existed fairly identical and comparable data after normalizing these spectrums. By further comparing the averages of the normalizing spectrum with spectrums of lighting moxa moxibustion, moxibustion with ginger, moxibustion with garlic, and moxibustion with monkshood cake, we found that radiation spectrums of moxibustion with ginger, garlic, and monkshood cake are astonishingly identical with that of human body, while moxa moxibustion spectrum was quite different.