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Drug photophoresis
Last reviewed: 07.07.2025
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Medicinal photophoresis is a combined physical and chemical method of local exposure to electromagnetic radiation of the optical range of the corresponding parameters and medicinal products, carried out using an emitter located at a distance of 0.5-100 cm above a certain exposed area of the patient's body, to the skin surface of which a solution of the medicinal product is applied.
For this combined method of treatment, the optimal effect is the NLI of the red and infrared part of the optical spectrum and the drugs used for electrophoresis. The effect of non-coherent non-monochromatic EMI, i.e. ordinary light, is ineffective due to its low spectral power density.
The characteristics of the combined effect and the main clinical effects of medicinal photophoresis are determined by the influence of the NLI and the corresponding medicinal product.
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