The World Health Organization lists over forty diseases that respond to acupuncture therapy. Here is a list of most of the conditions treatable by Acupuncture (according to the WHO).
- Addictions
- Alcoholic Addiction
- Opium, Cocaine and Heroin Addiction
- Tobacco Dependence
- Cardiovascular
- Essential Hypotension
- Leukopenia
- Cardiac Neurosis
- Pain due to Thromboangitis Obliterans
- Vascular Dementia
- Pulmonary Heart Disease
- Dermatological
- Acne Vulgaris
- Herpes Zoster
- Pruritis
- Ear, Eyes, Nose and Dental
- Dental Pain
- Temporomandibular Joint Pain (TMJ)
- Earache
- Epistaxis, simple
- Eye Pain due to Subconjunctival Injection
- Meniere’s Disease
- Sialism, drug-induced
- Sjogren Syndrome
- Gastro-Intestinal
- Biliary Colic
- Dysentery
- Epigastralgia
- Gastritis, acute and chronic
- Nausea and Vomiting
- Peptic Ulcer, acute
- Abdominal Pain
- Cholecystitis
- Cholelithiasis
- Diabetes Mellitus, non insulin dependent
- Gastrokinetic Disturbance
- Ulcerative Colitis, chronic
- Irritable Colon Syndrome
- Gynecological, Obstetric
- Labor, induction of
- Mal-position of Fetus
- Morning Sickness
- Female Infertility
- Female Urethral Syndrome
- Hypo-ovarianism
- Labor Pain
- Lactation Deficiency
- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
- Premenstrual Syndrome
- Infectious
- Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever
- Hepatitis B virus carrier status
- Sore Throat
- Tonsillitis
- Whooping Cough
- Musculo-Skeletal
- Knee Pain
- Low Back Pain
- Neck Pain
- Shoulder Arthritis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sciatica
- Sprain
- Tennis Elbow
- Temporomandibular Joint Pain (TMJ)
- Fibromyalgia
- Gouty Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Spine Pain, acute
- Stiff Neck
- Tietze Syndrome
- Neurological
- Facial Pain
- Headache
- Post-Surgical Pain
- Stroke Rehab
- Bell’s Palsy
- Cranial Cerebral Injury
- Facial Spasm
- Meniere’s Disease
- Neuralgia, post-herpetic
- Radicular and Pseudoradicular Pain Syndrome
- Raynaud Syndrome
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
- Tourette Syndrome
- Hypophrenia
- Neuropathic Bladder in Spinal cord Injury
- Psychological
- Depression
- Competition Stress Syndrome
- Insomnia
- Schizophrenia
- Respiratory
- Allergic Rhinitis
- Asthma
- Small Airway Obstruction
- Breathlessness in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Urological
- Renal Colic
- Female Urethral Syndrome
- Male Sexual Dysfunction
- Prostatitis, chronic
- Recurrent Lower Urinary Tract Infection
- Retention of Urine, traumatic
- Urolithiasis
- Other
- Adverse Reactions to Chemotherapy or Radiotherapy
- Cancer Pain
- Hyperlipaemia
- Obesity
- Pain due to endoscopic exam
- Postextubation in children
- Postoperative convalescence