关于针刺麻醉或药物麻醉对机体的防卫免疫系统的影响国内外屡有报道。Mclean等(1975)指出

在术后感染发生中

无论在发病率或发病的严重程度方面

病人的免疫状态起主要作用。因此

采用合理的麻醉方法对于提高镇痛效果与减少术后感染并发症具有重要意义。药麻手术后感染并发症的发病率相当高

根据1964年的综合统计资料

创口感染占全部术后创口的7.5％。和指出

大约1/3手术病人术后发生化脓性感染并发It has been demonstrated in the data that the anesthesia agents could impair the function of the immune system of the organism with depression of the cellular and humoral immunity and result in an increase in the fre- quency of infection after the operation under drug anesthesia. On the contrary

the effect of acupuncture might play a role of active defence mo- bilization

accounting for an increased enumeration of the leucocytes

the enhanced phagocytosis and activation of the reticulo endothelial system. The E rosette forming cells and the lymphocyte transformation were in- creased after acupuncture. Besides

it has been reported in a few data that the humoral immunity was enhanced with the augmented production of the immunoglobulins. It has been shown in clinic that a combine of acupuncture with drug anesthesia might relieve the harmful influence of the anesthesic agents on the organism and be beneficial to the post operative recovery in the pa- tients with a lesser extent of depression in immune system and a lesser frequency of the postoperative infectious complications. Meanwhile

the combined one could give an analgesic effect

overcoming the dysfunction of analgesia caused by the way of acupuncture anesthesia alone and creating a better condition under which the operations were performed. Thence

the combined acupuncture anaesthesia is one of the anaesthetic methods being worth spread of application.