Monday, July 14, 2008

The Application Of Acupuncture Anesthesia Without Retaining The Needle In 600 Cases Of Abdominal Tubal Ligation

Li Zaiming, Liu Xianmin (Datong People's Hospital, Shanxi)

The needle is inserted from "Qichong" point towards "Qichong" and "Wailing" point towards anohter "Wailing" without retaining the needle in situ. The needles are connected to an electrical anaesthesia instrument for 30 minutes' induction. After that, the needles are pulled out and then the operation is going on. The operations prove that acupuncture without retaining the needle on the body of patient has the same effect of relieving pain and regulation of biological function as that with the needle.


This paper consists of five parts. The first part provides the approach of acupuncture anaesthesia and the way to carry out the operations steadily, accurately, swiftly, and lightly.

The second part describes that this approach of acupuncture has the function of needling more points by using less needles without retaining the needle on the patient's body, better needling sensitivity, and higher anaesthesic effect. Analysis has been made on 600 cases of tubal ligation operations. Among them 56.5% were ranked as grade I, 31.67% as second grade, 11.33% as third grade while only 0.50% as fourth grade. It proved that rate of success was 99.5% and 88.17% was of high grade. The comparison with the old method of acupuncture proved that the effect was radically the same as that with retaining the needle in situ.


The third part provides the data of the change of skin sensitivity and the skin electricity, skin temperature, pulse and blood pressure. Acupuncture has better analgesic and anti-draw effect as well as better regulation effect on organ function. It reveals that acupuncture is one of practical techniques.

The fourth part analyses the factors that influence anesthetic effect of acupuncture. They are the duration of operation, confidence of the patient to the doctor, adjuvant drugs, thickness of abdominal wall, kind of operation and the position of uterus. It proved that the utilization of acupuncture anaesthesia without adjuvant drug for tubal ligation might gain the same effect as acupuncture anaesthesia with adjuvant drug.


The fifth part indicates that the practical meaning of acupuncture is simple and easy, adaptive to rural area, mountainous village and battle field. All these open a new way in enlarging the use of acupuncture anesthesia. The theoretical meaning reveals that with appropriate acupuncture condition, the needle acting on certain points and induced by pulse electricity, is able in 30 minutes to regulate human function of anti-pain and the effect still remains a certain duration after pulling out of the needle. This post effect reveals that acupuncture anaesthesia may probably be a procedure of a mutual reaction and a mutual constrain of complicated biological, biochemical and psychological integral movement and change. This provides a new way of exploration for research work of acupuncture anaesthesia.

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