Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine in Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth, Shropshire

What conditions and diseases can be treated with acupuncture?

Acupuncture is widely considered to be beneficial for a range of conditions. In the past years, we have successfully treated musculoskeletal, neurological, gynaecological/fertility, respiratory, gastrointestinal, ENT, emotional, dermatological, and other miscellaneous conditions with acupuncture, sometimes with a combination of Chinese herbs.

The diseases or disorders for which acupuncture therapy has been tested in controlled clinical trials reported in the recent literature can be classified into four categories. Below are some of the WHO list*. *Acupuncture: Review & Analysis of Reports on Controlled Trials. World Health Organization 2002

Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved through controlled trials to be an effective treatment:

Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy

Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)

Biliary colic

Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)

Dysmenorrhoea, primary

Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)

Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)

Headache

Induction of labour

Knee pain

Low back pain

Malposition of foetus

Morning sickness

Nausea and vomiting

Neck pain

Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)

Periarthritis of shoulder

Postoperative pain

Renal colic

Rheumatoid arthritis

Sciatica

Sprain

Stroke

Tennis elbow

Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed:

Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)

Acne vulgaris

Bell’s palsy

Bronchial asthma

Cancer pain

Cardiac neurosis

Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation

Cholelithiasis

Earache

Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)

Female infertility

Facial spasm

Female urethral syndrome

Fibromyalgia and fasciitis

Gouty arthritis

Herpes zoster

Hyperlipaemia

Insomnia

Labour pain

Lactation, deficiency

Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic

Ménière disease

Neuralgia, post-herpetic

Neurodermatitis

Obesity

Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence

Osteoarthritis

Polycystic ovary syndrome

Premenstrual syndrome

Prostatitis, chronic

Pruritus

Raynaud syndrome, primary

Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Retention of urine, traumatic

Sjögren syndrome

Spine pain, acute

Temporomandibular joint dysfunction

Tobacco dependence

Ulcerative colitis, chronic

Vascular dementia

hooping cough

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