Disorders and Conditions Treated by Acupuncture
Here is a partial list of disorders and conditions for which acupuncture has been shown to be effective in clinical trials, according to the World Health Organization.
- Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
- Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
- Biliary colic
- Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following
- stroke)
- Dysmenorrhoea (painful periods)
- Epigastralgia (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
- Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
- Headache
- Hypertension
- Hypotension
- Induction of labor
- Knee pain
- Leukopenia (decrease in number white blood cells due to medication, chemotherapy, or other factors)
- Low back pain
- Morning sickness
- Nausea and vomiting
- Neck pain
- Periarthritis of shoulder (stiffness and pain in the shoulder joint)
- Postoperative pain
- Renal colic (abdominal pain commonly caused by kidney stones)
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sciatica
- Sprain
- Stroke
- Tennis elbow