Acupuncture is a part of traditional Chinese medicine. Acupuncture relies on a number of therapeutic effects: it mobilizes the resources of the organism and enhances its resistance to pathological factors; it normalizes functional condition of organs; it normalizes and balances hormones and other biologically active substances which are vital for controlling physiological processes; it normalizes endocrine functions; it stimulates cortical substance of adrenal gland; it stimulates leucocytes; it helps to increase the number of antibodies which enhances host defense.