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World Health Organization Endorses Acupuncture

In 2003, The World Health Organization indicated the following diseases or disorders for which Acupuncture effectiveness has been shown:


Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)


Acne vulgaris


Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy


Alcohol dependence and detoxification


Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)


Bell’s palsy


Biliary colic


Breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease


Bronchial asthma


Cancer pain


Cardiac neurosis


Chloasma


Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation


Cholelithiasis


Choroidopathy, central serous


Colour blindness


Coma


Competition stress syndrome


Convulsions in infants


Coronary heart disease (angina pectoris)


Craniocerebral injury, closed


Deafness


Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)


Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent


Diarrhoea in infants and young children


Dysentery, acute bacillary


Dysmenorrhoea, primary


Earache


Encephalitis, viral, in children, late stage


Epidemic haemorrhagic fever


Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)


Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)


Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection


Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)


Facial spasm


Female infertility


Female urethral syndrome


Fibromyalgia and fasciitis


Gastrokinetic disturbance


Gouty arthritis


Headache


Hepatitis B virus carrier status


Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3)


Hyperlipaemia


Hypertension, essential


Hypo-ovarianism


Hypophrenia


Hypotension, primary


Induction of labour


Insomnia


Irritable colon syndrome


Knee pain


Labour pain


Lactation, deficiency


Leukopenia


Low back pain


Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic


Malposition of fetus, correction of


Ménière disease


Morning sickness


Nausea and vomiting


Neck pain


Neuralgia, post-herpetic


Neurodermatitis


Neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury


Obesity


Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence


Osteoarthritis


Pain due to endoscopic examination


Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)


Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans


Paralysis, progressive bulbar and pseudobulbar


Periarthritis of shoulder


Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)


Postextubation in children


Postoperative convalescence


Postoperative pain


Premenstrual syndrome


Prostatitis, chronic


Pruritus


Pulmonary heart disease, chronic


Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome


Raynaud syndrome, primary


Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection


Reflex sympathetic dystrophy


Renal colic


Retention of urine, traumatic


Rheumatoid arthritis


Schizophrenia


Sciatica


Sialism, drug-induced


Sjögren syndrome


Small airway obstruction


Sore throat (including tonsillitis)


Spine pain, acute


Sprain


Stiff neck


Stroke


Temporomandibular joint dysfunction


Tennis elbow


Tietze syndrome


Tobacco dependence


Tourette syndrome


Ulcerative colitis, chronic


Urolithiasis


Vascular dementia


Whooping cough (pertussis)


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