From the 1970s up to now, investigations have been done on the mechanism of acupuncture anesthesia and acupuncture analgesia from the viewpoints of operative surgery, anesthesiology, neuroanatomy ...

In 1973, Basu was invited to China to learn newly developed acupuncture anesthesia. From the very beginning, Basu tried to spread acupuncture to doctors by free teaching to broad masses of people.

Doctors declared the operation a success yesterday and said it was the first time "acupuncture anesthesia" had been used for such a procedure. The patient was first sedated using a standard ...

also known as acupuncture anesthesia, reduces the need for sedatives or pain relievers. Focusing on the medical team of Zhou Jia, head of Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and ...

Acupuncture involves penetrating the skin ... studies involved healthy adults undergoing elective surgery with general anesthesia. The studies all compared the stimulation of the P6 acupoint ...

requiring the use of general anesthesia. They were then randomized into three groups: one which received acupuncture, one which received the medication ondansetron (trade name Zofran), and a group ...

“Acupuncture is extremely safe and can help reduce pain with few unwanted side effects, but it has not been well researched as part of surgical anesthesia.” The study included 41 patients ...

Acupuncture may help relieve shivering caused by regional anesthesia lowering a patient’s core body temperature, according to 7th Space. Previous studies have shown that acupuncture on specific ...

while both acupuncture and acupressure help reduce anxiety. In a new study of anesthesia providers in the U.S., most report not having used or received any education in acupuncture or acupressure.

Our aim was to test whether auricular acupuncture is better than invasive needle control for complementary analgesia after ambulatory knee surgery. Methods: One hundred and twenty patients undergoing ...