World Health Organization (WHO) List of Conditions
Which Have Proven Benefits from Acupuncture.
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Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proven through controlled trials to be an effective treatment:
*Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
*Allergicrhinitis (including hay fever) *Biliary colic *Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke) *Dysentery, acute bacillary *Dysmenorrhea, primary *Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm) *Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders) *Headache *Hypertension, essential *Hypotension, primary *Induction of labor |
*Knee pain
*Leukopenia *Low back pain *Malposition of fetus, correction of *Morning sickness *Nausea and vomiting *Neck pain *Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction) *Periarthritis of shoulder *Postoperative pain *Renal colic *Rheumatoid arthritis *Sciatica *Sprain *Stroke *Tennis elbow |