It will hurt even if you take anesthesia, but it will not hurt much after the anesthesia is given.
Looking at it this way, acupuncture and anesthesia of traditional Chinese medicine should come first.
Does acupuncture hurt?
Laymen may be worried about the pain of acupuncture, but instead of worrying about this, experts are more worried about the effects of acupuncture mentioned before.
One of the biggest reasons why acupuncture is not as good as Western anesthesiology in modern medicine is that acupuncture can only relieve pain and cannot achieve complete muscle relaxation, and the effect cannot be such that the patient cannot feel it during the operation.
The feeling that the internal organs are being pulled by surgical instruments cannot cause the patient to lose consciousness in the late stage, causing the patient to feel that the doctor is operating on him during the operation and thus cause psychological disorders. These are 100% medical treatment in Western anesthesiology.
ACCIDENT.
Even if it is used for local analgesia, acupuncture is not like Western medicine anesthesiology. For example, traditional Chinese medicine is criticized by Dr. Fu for not having quantifiable indicators. Therefore, it is difficult to train doctors using the Western medicine education method of mass production. As a result, traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture doctors are the same as other types of traditional Chinese medicine doctors.
The individual technical deviation is extremely large.
This huge deviation is not only reflected between individuals, but also as Professor Wang himself admitted. His prescription may work wonders on one patient, but it is hard to say if it works on another person.
Some people say that the above is a strategy that Chinese medicine practitioners are very proud of, but in fact it tests the talent of Chinese medicine practitioners.
Because there are no quantitative indicators that can be summarized, it is difficult for TCM doctors themselves to summarize their own successful experiences and copy them to other patients.
what to do?
You can only rely on talent.
Talented Chinese doctors, such as famous doctors in history, can treat everything accurately. It is impossible for future generations to completely copy the treatment plan they have summarized and apply it to each individual patient.
Those without talent can only rely on good luck.
Don’t blame the school of traditional Chinese medicine for having a lot of discussions about whether it can be used well or not. Just like surgeons, they are prone to the problem of having a good eye but a weak hand.
The theory all makes sense, but the practical application is mostly a mess.
The needles in acupuncture are called the surgical scalpels of traditional Chinese medicine. Acupuncturists must have technical abilities that can compete with Western medicine surgeons. More accurately, they are called technical talents.
Due to the above reasons, generally speaking, acupuncture definitely requires anesthetic drugs for major surgeries. Water acupuncture can sometimes be used for minor surgeries.
Water acupuncture is a product of modern Chinese medicine. The theory is based on meridian science and is combined with modern medical drugs (Western medicine or Chinese patent medicine injections). Therefore, another name for water acupuncture is acupoint injection.
Like acupuncture, drugs like pethidine can usually be diluted with physiological saline and injected into designated acupoints.
There are four injection methods in Western medicine, intradermal injection, subcutaneous injection, intramuscular injection, and intravenous injection. If the above four Western medicine injection methods are used to explain the specific anatomical location of acupoint injection, it should be equivalent to the subcutaneous injection site in Western medicine.
With this explanation, you can understand why in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals you sometimes see nurses giving injections instead of doctors. After all, it is the nurses who do the injection work in the hospital on a daily basis and have more experience in practical operations.
Once the injection location is wrong and drugs that should not enter other parts of the human body are injected, the consequences can be imagined.
This is not a traditional Chinese medicine hospital. The people on standby are critical care medicine nurses from a western hospital.
Nurses also have specialized skills, so let the nurses from Western hospitals do the injections?
The nurse at the scene shook her head: I don’t know where the acupuncture points are.