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Chapter 4

Chapter 1 Section 4 Is the substitute for anesthesia really hypnosis?
It is amazing that hypnosis can replace anesthetics!Find out now! ? ?

At the beginning of the 19th century, a French surgeon, Cloquet, received a woman with breast cancer on the right side. The doctor decided to perform surgery and made a bold decision to use hypnosis instead of anesthesia. ?
Before the operation, he only hypnotized the patient without injecting any anesthetic drugs. As a result, the patient did not feel any pain during the entire operation from cutting the patient's breast to the armpit and removing the tumor and axillary glands. ?
In 1829, Crowquet specially reported this discovery when he gave a report at the French Academy of Medicine. ?
This report caused a great response, and people even accused Crowquet of being a liar.In the ensuing years, however, there have been numerous reports of painless procedures also performed using hypnosis.These reports have stimulated research interest in the psychological mechanisms by which hypnosis can relieve pain. ?
In the opinion of most scholars, hypnosis only relieves patients' anxiety, fear and worry about surgery, and whether pain can be relieved as a feeling is still a controversial issue.Perhaps, under hypnosis, the pain may reach some lower level, just not at the level of consciousness. ?
On this point, Hilgard's experiment may illustrate. ?
Hilgard used circulating ice water as a pain stimulus.He asked the subjects to put one hand into the ice water, and put the other hand on a button indicating the pain feeling, and asked the subjects to report the intensity of the pain on a scale of 1-10. ?
Under hypnosis, Hilgard was surprised to find that the subject said there was no pain, and completely ignored the hand in the ice water, but the hand on the button pressed the button to report the feeling of pain, showing The same as when not under hypnosis. ?
Mind walk?

All along, everyone thinks that hypnotism is mysterious and magical.But in the eyes of psychologists who know hypnotism, this is just a means of curing diseases.This is why they adopted an academic tone when telling the above story. ?
Every normal person will experience pain when receiving severe external stimuli, but under hypnosis, this pain can disappear.In fact, this shows that there are different levels of cognitive functions in our consciousness. Pain can reach a certain level of consciousness. When a person is hypnotized, the consciousness will be below the level that can perceive pain. ?
It would also be admirable if people could undergo surgery under hypnosis without the side effects of anesthesia. ?
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