In order to raise the successful rate and good rate of herniorrhaphy underacupuncture anesthesia

we put stress on the application of following principlesaccording to the method worked out by the National Collaborating Group ofClinical Research of Herniorrhaphy under Acupuncture Anesthesia and by combi-ning our own clinical experience obtained in performing herniorrhaphy underacupuncture anesthesia over a number of years: use of needles based on diffe-rentiation of symptoms and signs and use of medication based on differentiationof symptoms and signs. In the former

a combination of distal and local acu-points is selected and wave form of electroacupuncture is changed regularly; in