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The use of light in medicine - not a new concept
Just as Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture as very old systems of medicine being rediscovered, so is Light Therapy.

Heliotherapy (light therapy) was practiced by physicians in ancient cultures in Egypt, Greece, China, and India to address many conditions.
In the 1660s, Isaac Newton separated light with a prism and discovered the visible spectrum.
In the 1890s, a Danish physician, Dr Niels Finsen, pioneered light therapy. He observed that tubercular skin lesions were much more common during the long dark winter months, but rare in the summer months. In 1893, he began treating this condition, lupus vulgaris, with light. Later, he would use red light to prevent scar formation from smallpox and eventually established a light institute for the treatment of tuberculosis. So successful was his work in treating skin tuberculosis with ultraviolet light that he was awarded the Nobel prize in 1903. This was the first recognized therapeutic application of an artificial light source.

Basic Science
Works of the above-mentioned innovators and others provide us with sufficient empirical evidence of the value of light in medicine.
The scientific evidence for this rests in quantum physics and the color theory, the photoelectric effect first discovered by Hertz, and the theory of light elucidated by Albert Einstein.
According to the photoelectric effect, when light strikes any material substance, electrons are discharged, creating a current.
Simply, light interacts with matter as the energy of the light is transferred to the electrons. In 1905, Einstein offered an explanation for this phenomenon with his Corpuscular Theory of Light, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize. 
Einstein proposed that light is composed of corpuscular units called photons. He further claimed that a photon is the smallest unit of light and has a dual nature, being both a particle and a wave at the same time. A photon travels at the speed of light and its energy is related to the frequency of radiation. The energy of the photon is transferred to the electrons when it collides with any material substance. The shorter the waves of light, the greater the energy is transferred to the electron. The intensity of the light determines how many photons strike given surface and how many electrons are, thus, affected. The higher the intensity, the greater the number of photons and therefore, the greater the amount of energy transferred to the electrons.
Hence the physics of lasers were first imagined by Einstein.

Color
is frequency within the visible spectrum of light.
It is composed of a small band of the total electromagnetic spectrum, from violet at 400 nm (higher-energy photon) through red at 700 nm (lower-energy photon).
Beyond violet, in increasingly shorter wavelengths, are ultraviolet light, x-rays, and gamma radiation which contain tremendous amounts of energy. Infrared and radio waves are longer wavelengths outside the red end and less energetics. Each color of the spectrum is composed of a band of frequencies. Therapeutic application of light to the body is accomplished by applying a single monochromatic wavelength within that band.

Results
The early 1960s saw the development of numerous lasers and numerous new applications in industry and medicine.
Many of these new medical applications were in surgery and involved powerful instruments with outputs in the tens-to-hundreds of watts.
Surgeons noticed faster healing times and less scarring when doing procedures with lasers than when using the standard scalpel. This was later found to be the result of biostimulation.

Russian researchers at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine have shown that light applied to the human skin penetrates the body between 2 and 30 mm, depending on the color frequency.
The researchers also found that only certain areas of the body were able to transfer light beneath the surface, and these areas corresponded to acupuncture points.
Furthermore, the light was conducted within the body along the acupuncture meridians.
It appears that the meridians are a light transferral system within the body somewhat like optical fiber.

Tina Karu, PhD,
of the Laser Technology Center in Russia and affiliated with the University of California at Berkley, has researched the effects of light on the cell since the 1980s. She found there are photo receptors at the molecular level that, when triggered, activate a number of biological reactions such as DNA/RNA synthesis, increased cAMP levels, protein and collagen synthesis, and cellular proliferation.
The result is rapid regeneration, normalization, and healing of damaged cellular tissue. Thus, light is a trigger for the rearrangement of cellular metabolism or an anti aging effect.  

In 1966, Endre Mester,
a physician in Hungary, performed a series of experiments that showed the biostimulatory effect of visible red and infrared laser light at low intensity.
He published his findings in a eastern medical journal, which may explain why the benefits of low-level lasers were appreciated in the Eastern block long before they were recognized in the West.

In the United States, Margaret Naesser, PhD,
research professor and acupuncturist at Boston University School of Medicine, conducted research using low-level laser acupuncture with positive results for the treatment of paralysis in patients following stroke and in carpal tunnel syndrome.

Dr. med. Dipl. Chem. Michael Weber,
Medical Doctor, acupuncturist and educator for general medicine, natural medicine and acupuncture in Germany, has developed the laser needle system for the specific use in laser needle acupuncture and laser blood irradiation.
Singular laser acupuncture exists since the 1980s but has been further developed by Dr. Weber into needle equivalence technology for simultaneous treatments of several meridian points at the same time,
as practiced in traditional acupuncture.
Thus laser needle makes the acupuncture experience an uninvasive and pain free one.

Dr. Webers technology is used by Dr. Axel H Gruel, ND, Dipl. AC, OMD in Uruguay for skin rejuvenation, meridian therapy and blood irradiation.