WHAT CAN BE TREATED

Acupuncture and Asian Medicine can assist with a wide range of health issues and can also be used even when a modern medical diagnosis is unknown or has not yet been established. That being stated, here is what the World Health Organization (WHO) has released:

Below is a list of the WHO indications for what acupuncture has been Proven through clinical trials to be effective treatment:

• Respiratory: allergic rhinitis
• Gastrointestinal: biliary colic, dysentery, epigastralgia (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis and gastrospasm), morning sickness, nausea and vomiting
• Pain: facial pain, headache, knee pain, low back pain, neck pain, dental and temporomandibular pain, periarthritis of the shoulder, postoperative pain, rheumatoid arthritis, sciatica, sprain, tennis elbow
• Gynaecological/renal: colic, primary dysmenorrhoea, induction of labour, correction of malposition of fetus
• Cardiovascular: hypertension, hypotension, stroke​                                                      Psychiatric: depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
• General: adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy, leukopenia

Below is the WHO list of indications for which a therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown, but further evidence is needed:

• Respiratory: asthma, post-extubation in children, whooping cough
• Ear, nose, and throat, eye and mouth: eye pain, epistaxis (nose bleeds), herpes zoster, Menier's disease, sore throat, Sjogren syndrome
• Gastrointestinal: cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, gastrokinetic disturbance,
  hepatitis B carrier status, ulcerative colitis
• Neurolo-psychiatric: anxiety, Bell's palsy, depression, facial spasm, neuralgia, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, dementia, schizophrenia, Tourette syndrome
• Pain: abdominal pain, cancer pain, earache, fibromyalgia, gouty arthritis, osteoarthritis, radicular pain, spinal pain, pain due to endoscopic examination, stiff neck, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, Tietze syndrome
• Skin: acne vulgaris, neurodermatitis, pruritus
• Gynaecological/renal: female infertility, female urethral syndrome, hypoovarianism, labour pain, overactive bladder, polycystic ovary syndrome, premenstrual syndrome, urinary tract infections
• Male sexual dysfunction: prostatitis, , bladder infections, recurrent lower urinary tract infection, urolithiasis, retention of urine
• Cardiovascular: cardiac neurosis, hyperlipaemia, pain in thromboangiitis, Raynaud's syndrome
• General: alcohol dependence, competition stress syndrome, craniocerebral injury, diabetes (non-insulin dependent), haemorrhagic fever, obesity, insomnia, lactation deficiency, opium, cocaine and heroin, dependence, post operative convalescence, tobacco dependence,