In 2002 the World Health Organization released a report showcasing the clinical research that had been conducted, up to that point, on Acupuncture. This report stated that Acupuncture may be a suitable treatment for 107 specific conditions.
Below is an alphabetized list of the symptoms and conditions considered treatable with Acupuncture:
· Adverse reactions to radio therapy and/or chemotherapy
· Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
· Biliary colic
· Depression (including depression neurosis and depression following stroke)
· Dysentery, acute bacillary
· Dysmenorrhea, primary
· Epigastralgia , acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis and gastro-spasm)
· Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
· Headache
· Hypertension, essential
· Hypertension, primary
· Induction of labor
· Knee pain
· Leukopenia
· Low back pain
· Malposition of fetus, correction of
· Morning sickness
· Nausea and vomiting
· Neck pain
· Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
· Periarthritis of shoulder
· Post-operative pain
· Renal colic
· Rheumatoid arthritis
· Sciatica
· Sprain
· Stroke
· Tennis-elbow
In the following symptoms and conditions, the WHO recognizes the therapeutic effect Acupuncture has shown to offer but requires further research to verify:
· Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
· Acne vulgaris
· Alcohol dependence and detoxification
· Bell’s palsy
· Bronchial asthma
· Cancer pain
· Cardiac neurosis
· Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
· Cholelithiasis
· Competition stress syndrome
· Craniocerebral injury, closed
· Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin dependent
· Earache
· Epidemic hemorrhagic fever
· Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)
· Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
· Facial spasm
· Female infertility
· Female urethral syndrome
· Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
· Gastro-kinetic disturbance
· Gouty arthritis
· Hepatitis B carrier status
· Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3)
· Hyperlipemia
· Hypo-ovarianism
· Insomnia
· Labor pain
· Lactation, deficiency
· Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
· Meniere disease
· Neuralgia, post-herpetic
· Neurodermatitis
· Obesity
· Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
· Osteoarthritis
· Pain due to endoscopic examination
· Pain in thromboangitis obliterans
· Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)
· Post-operative convalescence
· Premenstrual syndrome
· Prostatitis, chronic
· Pruritus
· Radicular and pseudo radicular pain syndrome
· Raynaud syndrome, primary
· Recurrent lower urinary tract infection
· Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
· Retention of urine, traumatic
· Schizophrenia
· Sialism, drug-induced increased flow of saliva
· Sjogren syndrome
· Sore throat (including tonsiliitis)
· Spine pain, acute
· Stiff neck
· Temporomandibular joint dysfuntion
· Tietze syndrome
· Tobacco dependence
· Tourette syndrome
· Ulcerative colitis, chronic
· Urolithiasis
· Vascular dementia
· Whooping cough (pertussis)
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