1. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved—through controlled trials—to be an effective treatment.
  2. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed.
  3. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which there are only individual controlled trials reporting some therapeutic effects, but for which acupuncture is worth trying because treatment by conventional and other therapies is difficult.
  4. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture may be tried provided the practitioner has special modern medical knowledge and adequate monitoring equipment.
Addictions Cardiovascular Dermatological
  • Alcohol Addiction
  • Opium, Cocaine and Heroin Addiction
  • Tobacco Dependence
  • Essential Hypotension
  • Leukopenia
  • Cardiac Neurosis
  • Pain due to Thromboangitis Obliterans
  • Vascular Dementia
  • Pulmonary Heart Disease
  • Coronary Heart Disease
    (Angina Pectoris)
  • Acne Vulgaris
  • Herpes Zoster
  • Pruritis
  • Chloasma
Ear, Eyes, Nose & Dental Gastro-Intestinal Gynecological, Obstetric
  • Dental Pain
  • Temporomandibular Joint Pain (TMJ)
  • Earache
  • Epistaxis, simple
  • Eye Pain due to Subconjunctival Injection
  • Meniere's Disease
  • Sialism, drug-induced
  • Sjogren Syndrome
  • Central Serous Color Blindness
  • Choroidopathy
  • Deafness
  • Biliary Colic
  • Dysentery
  • Epigastralgia
  • Gastritis, acute and chronic
  • Nausea and Vomiting
  • Peptic Ulcer, acute
  • Abdominal Pain
  • Cholecystitis
  • Cholelithiasis
  • Diabetes Mellitus, non insulin dependant
  • Gastrokinetic Disturbance
  • Ulcerative Colitis, chronic
  • Irritable Colon Syndrome
  • Diarrhoea in infants and young children
  • 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 Musculo-Skeletal Neurological
  • Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever
  • Hepatitis B virus carrier status
  • Sore Throat
  • Tonsillitis
  • Whooping Cough
  • Late stage viral encephalitis in children
  • 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
  • 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
  • Paralysis, progressive bulbar and pseudobulbar
Psychological Respiratory Urological
  • Depression
  • Competition Stress Syndrome
  • Insomnia
  • Schizophrenia
  • Allergic Rhinitis
  • Asthma
  • Small Airway Obstruction
  • Breathlessness in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  • 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
  • Coma
  • Convulsions in Infants