SYMPTOMS THAT CAN BE EFFECTIVELY TREATED BY ACUPUNCTURE

In 2003, the World Health Organization(WHO) published a review and analysis of controlled clinical trials on acupuncture. They listed the following as

“Diseases, symptoms or conditions for Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and /or chemotherapy:

• Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
• Biliary colic
  
• Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
  
• Dysentery, acute bacillary
  
• Dysmenorrhoea, primary
  
• Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
  
• Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
  
• Headache
  
• Hypertension, essential
  
• Hypotension, primary
  
• Induction of labour
  
• 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