World Health Organization
**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) Dysentery, acute bacillary Dysmenorrhoea, primary Epigastralgia, acute Facial pain Headache primary Induction of labor Knee pain Leukopenia |
Low back painMalposition of fetus, correction ofMorning sickness
Nausea and vomiting Neck pain
Pain in dentistry 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 |
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| 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 haemorrhagic fever Epistaxis, simple Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection Female infertility Facial spasm Female urethral syndrome Fibromyalgia and fasciitisGastrokinetic disturbanceGouty arthritis Hepatitis B virus carrier status Herpes zoster Hyperlipaemia Hypo-ovarianism Insomnia Labour pain Lactation, deficiency Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic Ménière disease 24 3. Disease and disorders that can be treated with acupuncture |
Neuralgia, post-herpeticNeurodermatitis
Obesity Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence Osteoarthritis Pain due to endoscopic examination Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein–Leventhal syndrome) Postextubation in children Postoperative convalescence Premenstrual syndrome Prostatitis, chronic Pruritus Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome Raynaud syndrome, primary Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection Reflex sympathetic dystrophy Retention of urine, traumatic Schizophrenia Sialism, drug-induced Sjögren syndrome Sore throat (including tonsillitis) Spine pain, acute Stiff neck Temporomandibular joint dysfunction Tietze syndrome Tobacco dependence Tourette syndrome Ulcerative colitis, chronic Urolithiasis Vascular dementia Whooping cough (pertussis) |
Diseases, Symptoms or Conditions for Which There are Only Individual Controlled Trials Reporting Some Therapeutic Effects, but for Which Acupuncture is Worth Trying Because Treatment by Conventional and Other Therapies is Difficult
Chloasma, central serous choroidopathy, colour blindness, deafness, hypophrenia, irritable colon syndrome, neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury, chronic pulmonary heart disease, small airway obstruction
Diseases, Symptoms or Conditions for which Acupuncture may be Tried Provided the Practitioner has Special Modern Medical Knowledge and Adequate Monitoring Equipment
Breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coma, convulsions in infants, coronary heart disease (angina pectoris), diarrhoea in infants and young children, late stage viral encephalitis in children, progressive bulbar and pseudobulbar paralysis