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Acupressure is a healing therapy that provides stimulation without needle by applying any pressure to the meridians of traditional Chinese acupuncture (the most important branch of the tTraditional Chinese medicine). This article presents an application of the infrared thermography to the thermal reactivity of Human body skin due to the acupressure stimulation. To survey an in vivo human skin surface, during the feasibility and material validity test, we will discuss the different sources of uncertainties and slants bound to the measurement by infrared thermography, such as the skin surface's emissivity, the noise and the drift of the camera as well as the influence of the radiance emitted by the ambient surroundings. The main aim of this work is to highlight in infrared an objective evidence of the acupuncture points by infrared thermography under acupressure stimulation defined by the traditional Chinese acupuncture, by refining infrared thermography measuring methods. And finally twelve healthy acupuncture-naïve volunteers of our University participated to this scientific experimentation: a single-blinded in vivo trial "formula, placebo and sham" session.

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