From October 1990 to December 1995

the national cooperative neurosurgical acupuncture research group had already accumulated 100 clinical cases

consisting of 20 cases in deep site of brain

80 cases in the functional region. By the same manipulative procedures and scaling criteria

the indication

choice of acupoints

stimulus parameters and adjuvants were studied. Practically

the results was not only reliable

but repetitive highly

98% the chses belonged to grade Ⅰ(success). We suggest that acupuncture anesthesia should be used as one of the usual methods of anesthesia. In this paper

the relative specification of acupuncture

the rnechanism of methods for operation were discussed. In the meantime

the advantages and the remaining problems of acupuncture anesthesia in craniocerebral operations were also mentioned.