WHO About Acupuncture:
In an official report, Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials, the World Health Organization (WHO) has listed the following symptoms, diseases and conditions that have been shown through controlled trials to be treated effectively by acupuncture:
- Low Back Pain
- Periarthritis of the shoulder
- Neck pain
- Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
- Sciatica
- Temporomandibular (TMJ) dysfunction
- Tennis elbow
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Knee pain
- Induction of labor
- Sprains
- Correction of malposition of fetus (breech presentation)
- Headache
- Leucopenia
- Dental pain
- Adverse reactions to radiation or chemotherapy
- Morning sickness
- Allergic rhinitis, including hay fever
- Nausea and vomiting
- Acute and chronic gastritis
- Postoperative pain
- Depression (including depression neurosis & following stroke)
- Stroke
- Acute bacillary dysentery
- Essential hypertension
- Primary Dysmenorrhea
- Primary Hypertension
- Acute Epigastralgia
- Renal/Biliary colic
- Peptic Ulcer