Patent ID: 8721673

Claim:
A method of acupuncture with a prolonged action, during which acupuncture points are determined, pairs of points of needle entry and exit for at least one needle are selected, passing a needle made of material able to be plastically flattened through each of the selected entry and exit points of at least a pair of said pairs of points, leaving both ends of the at least one needle outside a patient's skin, fixing the at least one needle in this position by means of two locking members, installed on both ends of the at least one needle, and upon the end of acupuncture session leaving the at least one needle in the body of a patient for an assigned-time, wherein by means of a needle introduction an acusal tract is formed in at least one of a plurality of different histological layers of the patient's tissues, and entry and exit points for the at least one needle is selected at points located in the region including at least one of an acupuncture point, a reflexogenic zone and an indifferent zone; wherein for fixing the needle, at least one of the locking members is provided with a through aperture and is configured to slide on the body of the needle, and the at least one locking member's fixation in an assigned position is carried out by a flattening plastic deformation of the body of the needle at a distal side of the at least one locking member so as the width of the flattened area exceeds the diameter of the said through aperture.