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The World Health Organization (WHO) has compiled a list of symptoms, syndromes, disease processes, pathologies, traumas and conditions that have definitely been proven as effectively treated by acupuncture.
In an official report, Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials, the WHO lists the following have been shown through controlled trials to be treated effectively by acupuncture:
- Low back pain
- Neck pain
- Sciatica
- Tennis elbow
- Knee pain
- Periarthritis of the shoulder
- Sprains
- Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
- Headache
- Dental pain
- Temporomandibular (TMJ) dysfunction
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Induction of labor
- Correction of malposition of fetus (breech presentation)
- Morning sickness
- Nausea and vomiting
- Postoperative pain
- Stroke
- Essential hypertension
- Primary hypotension
- Renal colic
- Leucopenia
- Adverse reactions to radiation or chemotherapy
- Allergic rhinitis, including hay fever
- Biliary colic
- Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
- Acute bacillary dysentery
- Primary dysmenorrhea
- Acute epigastralgia
- Peptic ulcer
- Acute and chronic gastritis
Note: The above includes the ailments approved by WHO. It is not a complete list according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. If your ailment does not appear on this list, it does not mean it can not be treated by acupuncture.