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The main concern of this author's work is the promotion of alternative forms of treatment, which has shown positive results in treating a wide range of diseases, but also the suggestion in deeper philosophy of these healing forms. This paper therefore aims at a detailed review of the literature regarding the techniques of traditional Chinese acupuncture and electroacupuncture as an alternative therapy in the treatment of low back pain. Nowadays more and more people are looking painless treatments and so the application of acupuncture flourishes. Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years in traditional Chinese medicine as a technique based on the idea that in order to restore energy balance in the body, which is disturbed because of illness, is used needles that are inserted at specific points or energy channels. This energy is called De Qi. The use of acupuncture to control pain in musculoskeletal disorders increases. Some patients seek alternative therapies, due to the failure of the classical methods. Possible physiological effects of acupuncture on the relieve pain are attributed to biochemical processes, such as the release of endorphins in limbic structures, subcortical areas of the brain stem, mechanisms are also present in the placebo-induced analgesia. Moreover, pain relief with acupuncture is associated with the patient, his expectations, beliefs and interactions with practitioners of acupuncture. The effectiveness of acupuncture on lumbar pain depends on deep theoretical knowledge of the technique and the experience of the therapist. The choice of a remedy based on documented evidence and mode.