"Artificial abortion syndrome" denotes a series of clinical manifestation of vagotonic eactions which were induced by local excitation of the uterine cervix and the uterine wall by instruments or by the negative pressure during the process of artificial abortion. In normal cases

recovery usually takes place within 5-10 minutes after the operation. However

if the pregnant women were victims of some forms of cardio-vascular disorders

such reactions would liable to result in sudden cardiac arrest and

once it should happen

the resuscitation measures would less likely be successful. The life of the patients might be threatened if emergency measure was not taken promptly. In an attempt to prevent such accident

from Apr. 1977-Nov. 1978

prophylactic measure was taken with acupuncture analgesia during the operations on 100 cases of such patients and the results were found favorable.In cases of pregnancy less than 80 days "Zhongji" point was chosen

while in cases of pregnancy more than 80 days

"Guanyuan" point was selected. During the operation one should twist the needle consistently

and avoid pulling out the needle too early.From July-Oct. 1977

abortions were performed on 263 normal cases without acupuncture

the incidence of "artificial abortion syndrome" was 12.5％

while in 100 cases with cardio-vascular disorders to whom acupuncture was used as a prophylactic measure of the reactions

the incidence was only 3％. The difference between these two series was statistically significant （X

2

=7.36

P

<

0.025）. Moreover

all of these 100 cases with cardiovascular disorders got through the operation successfully without receiving any other adjunctive treatments.