What is biopuncture?
Biopuncture is an injection therapy in which specific body zones or points are injected with highly diluted natural products, the majority of which are derived from plants, in order to regulate inflammatory processes and support natural repair mechanisms. Most of these injections are given into the skin or muscles.
As a specific injection method, biopuncture is distinct from other injection methods applied in medical practice, including other natural injection therapies such as neural therapy, mesotherapy, and prolotherapy, among others. Although biopuncture has been used in Germany for more than 50 years, the actual term wasn’t introduced until 1991 in Belgium. Today, practitioners all over the world offer biopuncture.
What Is Biopuncture Used For?
Biopuncture is used primarily to treat acute and chronic musculoskeletal problems and sports injuries. Biopuncturists commonly treat such problems as neck pain, back pain, ankle sprains, muscle tears, tennis elbow, whiplash, and Achilles tendinopathy.  Biopuncture also can be used to treat non-musculoskeletal disorders such as allergies, asthma, headaches, eczema, bronchitis, gastritis, sinusitis, and numerous other kinds of inflammatory conditions.

How Does Biopuncture Work?
Biopuncture is referred to as a “bioregulatory” therapy. Bioregulatory medicine is a practice that has grown out of the homeopathic medical tradition in Europe, primarily Germany. Its objective is to restore normal functioning of the autoregulating systems that steer the basic physiological processes in the body. The body’s numerous autoregulating systems each have their own set points, and the autoregulating process fluctuates to maintain homeostasis near that set point.
Disease occurs when an autoregulating system is no longer oscillating near the set point. The goal of biopuncture is to restore autoregulation using the stimulus of injection.  While more research into exactly how biopuncture works is needed, studies indicate that biopuncture may work by stimulating your immune system to restart its innate healing capacities—improved local blood circulation, tissue repair, relaxation of muscles, or local detoxification, for example. The results of a scientific investigation published in Clinical & Developmental Immunology showed that one commonly used biopuncture medicine known as Traumeel works via the immune system by inhibiting the pro-inflammatory compounds IL-1ß and TNF-alpha.

What Is Injected During Biopuncture?
The natural compounds that are injected during biopuncture are medicines that have bioregulatory characteristics. They are sterile, highly dilute preparations considered low-dose or even ultra-low-dose compared to medications used in conventional medicine, although they are not diluted as much as in traditional homeopathy.
The molecular concentrations of the constituents used are too low to be toxic or to suppress any physiologic function. Instead of a single ingredient, mixtures of multiple natural products are always injected. Many of the sterile mixtures used are manufactured by the German company Heel and include Lymphomyosot for lymphatic drainage, Traumeel for inflammations and sports injuries, and Spascupreel for muscular cramps. Practitioners also may inject additional products such as hyaluronic acid to treat cartilage damage, local anesthetics like procaine and lidocaine to make the injections less painful, and dextrose to stimulate healing of damaged connective tissue.