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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

More: http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Js4926e/5.html

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