“List of Diseases Treated with Acupuncture” published by the World Health Organization:
1. Diseases, symptoms and conditions that acupuncture effectively improves:
- Adverse effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy
- Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
- Bile colic
- Depression
- Dysentery
- Dysmenorrhea
- Epigastralgia
- Facial pain
- Headache
- Hypertension
- Hypotension
- Knee pain
- Leukopenia
- Low back pain
- Morning sickness
- Nausea and vomiting
- Neck pain
- Periarthritis(shoulder)
- Post-operative pain
- Renal colic
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sciatica
- Stroke
- Tennis elbow
2. Diseases for which acupuncture has a therapeutic effect but more clinical studies are needed:
- Abdominal pain
- Acne
- Alcohol addiction and detoxification
- Bell’s palsy
- Bronchial asthma
- Cancer pain
- Heart Neurosis
- Stress syndrome
- Skull brain trauma
- Diabetes; non-insulin dependent
- Earache
- Epidemic hemorrhagic fever
- Eye pain
- Female infertility
- Facial spasm
- Female urethral syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Gastrokinetic disorder
- Hepatitis B virus carrier status
- Work pain
- Lactation, deficiency
- Male sexual dysfunction, nonorganic
- Meniere’s disease
- Neuralgia
- Neurodermia
- Obesity
- Opium, cocaine and heroin addiction
- Osteoarthritis
- Postoperative recovery
- Prostatitis, chronic
- Prurit
- Radicular pain syndrome
- Raynaud’s syndrome
- Recurrent lower urinary tract infection
- schizophrenia
- Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
- Spine pain, acute
- Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
- Tietze’s syndrome
- Smoking addiction
- Tourette syndrome
- Ulcerative colitis, chronic
- Kidney stones
- Whooping cough (pertussis)
(980070) 6)Sjögren’s syndrome
3. Diseases that cannot be treated with modern medical methods, but the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been reported:
- Chloasma
- Choroidopathy, serous center
- Color blindness
- Deafness
- Hypophrenia
- Irritable colon syndrome
- Neuropathic bladder with spinal cord injury
- Pulmonary heart disease, chronic
- Small airway obstruction
4. Diseases that specialist doctors may try to treat with acupuncture:
- Chronic lung disease and shortness of breath
- Coma
- Convulsions in infants
- Coronary heart disease (angina pectoris)
- Diarrhea in infants, young children
- Encephalitis in children, viral
- Stroke
