Does acupuncture have anesthesia

Yes, but it requires a very high level of skill and physical strength from the person administering the needles. There are not many people in China who can reach that level. My acupuncture teacher was one of the researchers of the national acupuncture anesthesia project in the early liberation period, and she may be 80 years old now. She said that this program was only used because of the lack of medical treatment in those days. In addition to being difficult to replicate, it requires multiple acupuncturists to perform the procedure at the same time. That is to say, a few hours of surgery, the acupuncturist will have to twist the technique at high speed for a few hours, which is also a physical challenge. The biggest surgery done in that program back then was heart surgery. The teacher said that the acupuncturist who administered the needles would never want to do it again in his or her life if he or she had done such a big operation once. You can imagine the level of exertion. That's why it's impossible to popularize and promote this thing alone. Now that conditions are so good, it is still cost-effective to use anesthesia. Regardless of Chinese medicine and Western medicine, there are advantages and disadvantages, complement each other's strengths and weaknesses, and cure the patient is the ultimate goal.