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In the last XVIIth century, three agents of the Dutch East India Company working in Batavia (Busschof) and Deshima (Ten Rhijne and Kaempfer) described for the first time moxibustion and acupuncture. Then began the transmissions of these two remedies in Europe. A comparative analysis will show some differences between places, periods, actors and techniques. But it will also and above all point some similarities of transmission. For, beyond some differences, moxibustion and acupuncture were described in local places, in contact zones; but by their transcription, was already operated a rift. This rift will enlarge when going to Europe. Moxibustion and acupuncture will inevitably undergo the constraints of theoretical, practical, political and institutional filters. Finally, we will see that these transmissions were influenced by textual and material process of transformation, appropriation and reduction.