Acupuncture Anesthesia in Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Have you heard of acupuncture anesthesia? Acupuncture anesthesia is prime electrical stimulation on the earlobe or somewhere on the body with a stapler acupuncture needles, before and during surgical operation so that the patient will not feel surgical pain without anesthetics. Today hundreds of thousands of surgeries have been successfully completed under acupuncture anesthesia in China. From 1965 to 1978, one thousand forty-eight cases were performed under acupuncture anesthesia with excellent or good results. During the same period three thousand five hundred thirty-five cases of a c-section were done under acupuncture anesthesia in Beijing. The successful rate was ninety-eight percent according to a survey out of ten largest hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and Guiyang China acupuncture anesthesia was not as popular as back in the 1970s. At present, most common types under cases of acupuncture anesthesia are done in neurosurgeries because patients are operated on under a conscious state, they can respond to surgeons’ neurological check up during operations so that surgeons can make adjustments effectively to raise the successful rate of surgeries.

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