title: [Eclecticism in medicine].
abstract: Last years saw a series of publications published in different medical editions, concerning an application sphere of physiotherapy. These publications cast doubt on reflexotherapy as an independent medical discipline. New term physiopuncture was proposed in such publications, actually it is a try terminologically and in practice to substitute acupuncture and its methods (i.e. reflexotherapy) by an other medical specialty physiotherapy. The article does not call physiotherapy in question as a specialty itself, but conclude, that such forcible attribution of the reflexotherapy's methods to physiotherapy's is not acceptable. All physical influences on the acupuncture's points (laserpuncture, electropuncture, shortwave frequency puncture and others) even that being used barely through metameric principle in accordance with WHO recommendations should be referred to the sphere of reflexotherapy.
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Macheret
authors.forename: I P
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Chervonnyĭ
authors.forename: O E
authors.initials: OE
authors.lastname: Kovalenko
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Kireev
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Chuprina
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D012028:Reflexotherapy; D009626:Terminology as Topic