Regarding whether acupuncture can provide anesthesia, I have seen a documentary about this, which was filmed in the 1970s and 1980s and was about acupuncture anesthesia.
Later, I also asked my colleagues in the Department of Anesthesiology, and they told me that there are two types of acupuncture anesthesia: one is single acupuncture anesthesia, and the other is needle + drug anesthesia.
The protagonist of the novel, Lin Sanqi, uses single acupuncture anesthesia. However, this type of anesthesia has a limitation, which is that it can only be used for pain in the waist, back, and limbs. The analgesic effect is not particularly good, but it is sufficient.
If it is used in an emergency or in a field hospital, it can be used as "local anesthesia".
Like Zhu Xiaoxia in the novel, who was bitten, the wounds were all on her back, buttocks, and limbs. Debridement and suture did not require general anesthesia, only local anesthesia would be enough, so acupuncture anesthesia was suitable.
There are also confirmed real records that acupuncture anesthesia can be used in "semi-anesthesia surgery", such as appendicitis, cesarean section, varicose vein closure and other surgeries.
Of course, I have never seen this before, and I only found out about it by looking up information or asking other colleagues.
Now, except for some senior experts in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, probably no one knows how to perform acupuncture anesthesia.
The main reason is that, as a doctor specializing in Western medicine, I think acupuncture anesthesia is definitely unreliable. When there is the option of drug anesthesia, no one would be stupid enough to use acupuncture for anesthesia.
There is a medical safety issue here.
There is also a medical practitioner law involved. Anesthesiologists are definitely not allowed to perform acupuncture anesthesia because it is traditional Chinese medicine and exceeds the scope of practice.
But Chinese medicine practitioners cannot do this either. This is the responsibility of the anesthesiology department. If you, a Chinese medicine practitioner, act as an anesthesiologist, you are also practicing beyond your scope of practice.
So from a legal point of view, anyone who practices acupuncture and anesthesia is breaking the law, and if everyone loses a lawsuit, there is no way anyone would go to the trouble of learning acupuncture and anesthesia.
To clarify: the author is neither a fan nor a hater of traditional Chinese medicine.
My attitude towards traditional Chinese medicine is neither support nor opposition, but neutral.
Sweat is dripping down... (End of this chapter)
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