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What conditions and diseases can be helped with acupuncture?
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Acupuncture is widely considered to be beneficial for a wide range of conditions including musculoskeletal, neurological, gynaecological/fertility, respiratory, gastrointestinal, ENT, emotional, dermatological, and other miscellaneous conditions.
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Below are some of the WHO list*. *Acupuncture: Review & Analysis of Reports on Controlled Trials. World Health Organization 2002
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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
- Sjögren syndrome
- Spine pain, acute
- Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
- Tobacco dependence
- Ulcerative colitis, chronic
- Vascular dementia
- Hooping cough
If you are not sure whether your condition can be helped with acupuncture please get in touch.