Guest guest Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 Hi all, I was in the surgery department last week and didn't notice any use of acupuncture as anaesthesia. Isn't acupuncture anaesthesia used anymore? I thought that when Nixon went to China and one of his aids became ill, they used acupuncture anaesthesia on him, hence acupunctures wide introduction into the West. But where has it gone now? Kind regards Attilio www.chinesedoctor.co.uk <http://www.chinesedoctor.co.uk/> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 Attilio, One of my Chinese-trained professors (Dr. Lixin Zhang) said that they only do that 'for show'. Realistically, it's to much of a hassle. Apparently, you'd have to have multiple practitioners constantly stimulating the needles to have real effect (for a major surgery, anyway). I do hear of local practitioners using it for dental anaesthesia. - John Attilio D'Alberto <attiliodalberto wrote: Hi all, I was in the surgery department last week and didn't notice any use of acupuncture as anaesthesia. Isn't acupuncture anaesthesia used anymore? I thought that when Nixon went to China and one of his aids became ill, they used acupuncture anaesthesia on him, hence acupunctures wide introduction into the West. But where has it gone now? Kind regards Attilio www.chinesedoctor.co.uk <http://www.chinesedoctor.co.uk/> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 12, 2004 Report Share Posted June 12, 2004 One of my instructors in school was an orthopedic surgeon in china. He said that the difficulty of using acupuncture anesthesia is it might only work for 95% of the pain, but this isn't good enough for most patients when you're cutting in to them. It has to work for 100% of the pain or they couldn't use it. Consequently western anesthesia would always have to be there as a backup. It's my guess that it's easier to use western anesthesia all the time than try something that might need a backup. Someone else I knew used it for dental work with good results. It basically was a way to reduce the amount of chemicals you would be shot up with for those with a sensitivity to them. So if it didn't work 100% it didn't matter, but whatever gains could be made from it the better. The patient would be awake during the procedure and could adjust the amplitude settings on the tens machine in real time for best results. --brian Chinese Medicine , " Attilio D'Alberto " <attiliodalberto> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was in the surgery department last week and didn't notice any use of > acupuncture as anaesthesia. Isn't acupuncture anaesthesia used anymore? I > thought that when Nixon went to China and one of his aids became ill, they > used acupuncture anaesthesia on him, hence acupunctures wide introduction > into the West. But where has it gone now? > > Kind regards > > Attilio > > www.chinesedoctor.co.uk <http://www.chinesedoctor.co.uk/> > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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