Patients are becoming more eager to adopt acupuncture and associated practices, which are being used more frequently in traditional medical settings. The precise mechanism of action and effectiveness of acupuncture have not been proven despite more than 30 years of research. The majority of acupuncture's components have also not yet been thoroughly evaluated. As a result, there is still a great deal of debate over acupuncture's place in clinical medicine. Evidently, acupuncture does not significantly lessen the need for volatile anesthetics. A promising use of acupuncture in perioperative settings appears to be preoperative sedation. A high level of experience on the part of the acupuncturist practitioner is necessary for acupuncture to be successful for postoperative pain management.

According to research by Huang et al. at the Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture increases recovery rates and decreases medication dosages for patients undergoing gynecologic laparoscopy. The quantity of general anesthetic required was decreased with acupuncture. Acupuncture also reduced the amount of time it took to awaken and increased alertness after general anesthesia. A notable discovery was that individuals who had acupuncture experienced much less pain following surgery. Patients who received acupuncture performed better than those who did not receive acupuncture across all of the aforementioned indices (control group).

The acupuncture points, or acupoints, are stimulated during acupuncture treatments to achieve therapeutic effects. A growing trend in the use of acupuncture in contemporary anaesthesia has been noted, in addition to its 2000-year history of use in TCM. Originating in the 1930s, modern acupuncture anaesthesia (AA) rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. AA is based on the surgical site, diseases, dialectical acupoints, local acupuncture principles, and the effects of anaesthesia following the use of an anesthetic surgical technique. On August 30, 1958, the bilateral Hegu (LI4) technique was used by the department of otorhinolaryngology at Shanghai First People's Hospital during a patient's tonsillectomy. This was the first instance where acupuncture analgesia had been employed exclusively. The advancement of acupuncture anaesthesia has since entered a prosperous phase.

The use of acupuncture alone does not provide a sufficient level of anaesthesia or unconsciousness, and patients frequently require sedation during treatments. Researchers began to notice the impact of acupuncture and related techniques on a reduced consumption of anesthetics or analgesics, though, after it was first reported in 1981 that electro-acupuncture (EA) reduced halothane requirements. Because higher doses are typically associated with higher risks of morbidity, longer recovery times, and higher costs, this impact may be clinically significant.

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