Conditions Treated With Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
In 2003 the World Health Organization published a document called Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials. The objective was “to provide a review and analysis of controlled clinical trials of acupuncture therapy, as reported in the current literature, with a view to strengthening and promoting the appropriate use of acupuncture in health care systems throughout the world.”
Section 3 of the publication is a discussion of “the diseases or disorders for which acupuncture therapy has been tested in controlled clinical trials reported in the recent literature.” Below is a partial listing of these conditions. Conditions listed in blue have been treated at this clinic.
1. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved – through controlled trials – to be an effective treatment:
- Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
- Allergic rhinitis / hay fever
- Low back pain
- Leukopenia
- Depression (including depression following stroke)
- Nausea and vomiting
- Dysentery, acute bacillary
- Morning sickness
- Dysmenorrhoea, primary
- Neck Pain
- Epigastralgia, acute (acute/chronic gastritis, gastrospasm)Periarthritis of shoulder
- Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)Postoperative pain
- Headache
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Hypertension, essential
- Sciatica
- Hypotension, primary
- Sprain
- Induction of labor
- Stroke
- Knee pain
- Tennis Elbow
2. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed:
- Abdominal pain (acute gastroenteritis / gastrointestinal spasm)
- Labor Pain
- Acne vulgaris
- Lactation, deficiency
- Alcohol dependence and detoxification
- Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
- Bell’s palsy
- Meniere’s disease
- Bronchial asthma
- Neuralgia, post-herpatic
- Cancer pain
- Neurodermatitis
- Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
- Obesity
- Cholelithiasis (gall stones
- Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
- Competition stress syndrome
- Osteoarthritis
- Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Earache
- Postoperative convalescence
- Epidemic hemorrhagic fever
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Female infertility
- Prostatitis, chronic
- Facial spasm
- Raynaud syndrome, primary
- Female urethral syndrome
- Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
- Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
- Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
- Gouty arthritis
- Spine pain, acute
- Hepatitis B virus carrier status
- Stiff neck
- Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3)
- Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ)
- Hyperlipademia
- Tobacco dependence
- Hypo-ovarianism
- Ulcerative colitis, chronic
- Insomnia
- Whooping cough (pertussis)
