In this article 1250 cases of acupuncture anaesthesia for pulmoctomy in ourhospital since June 1960 to March 1987 were analysed, among them 57 caseswere failured, the rate of failure 4.56%, the causes of failured as following:3 cases unwilling for acupuncture anaesthesia during introduction period, 11 caseshad severe pains at the procedure of cutting skin and muscle layers, 4 casescan’t cooserated because of four limbs acting in disorder after open chest cavity,19 cases hinder the operation going further because of mediastinum flutter heavy