title: The history of acupuncture anesthesia for pneumonectomy in Shanghai during the 1960s.
abstract: The success of acupuncture anesthesia (AA) for pneumonectomy in Shanghai in 1960 was a key event for AA gaining practical clinical application. The effort was a close collaboration between the Shanghai First Tuberculosis Hospital and the Shanghai Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. One of the most important factors of AA success was the great financial and political support provided by the Chinese central government and Shanghai local government. In December1965 the State Science and Technology Commission of China issued a formal document acknowledging AA as an important first-level national achievement of the integration of Chinese and Western medicine, and a collaborative effort of the whole scientific community in China. AA was an important influential factor that helped acupuncture spread across the world.
authors.affiliation: Department of Literature Research, Shanghai Research Center of Acupuncture and Meridian, Shanghai 200030, China.
authors.forename: Li-Gong
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: McLean Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, PLC., Vienna, VA 22182, USA.
authors.forename: Arthur Yin
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: Sino-French Cooperative Central Laboratory, Shanghai Gongli Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200135, China.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Acu-Herbs Healing, Citrus Heights, CA 95610, USA.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D015667:Acupuncture Analgesia / Q000266:history*; D002681:China; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D000070516:Intersectoral Collaboration; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000266:history*