It is a special field where electroacupuncture is used.
The patient remains awake and is ready to be moved right after the completion of the operation: caesarean, painless labor, tonsillectomy, appendectomy and many other operations are performed with the help of acupuncture, only.
It is imperative that the acupuncturist is present throughout the operation so as to stimulate the specific points.
Anastasia Karamouzi, studied this method in Beijing in 1980 but she did not practice it in Greece.