| Abstract: | Acupuncture, as a healing art in traditional Chinese medicine, has been widely used to treat various diseases. In the history of acupuncture
anesthesia, in the past decades, mechanisms of acupuncture analgesia has been widely investigated, and in recent years, acupuncture protection
on organ functions has attracted great interest. This review summarized the research progress on mechanisms of acupuncture for analgesia and
of its protection against organ function injury in anesthesia, and its perspective of analgesia, immunomodulation, neuroendocrine regulation
and multiple organ protection. The current evidence supports that acupuncture analgesia and its organ protection in anesthesia is associated
with the integration of neuroendocrine-immune networks in the level of neurotransmitters, cytokines, hormones, neuronal ensembles,
lymphocytes, and endocrine cells. Although the mechanisms of acupuncture analgesia and its organ protection are still not completely
understood, basic as well as clinic researches on the mechanisms and applications of acupuncture and related techniques are being carried out. |
