Last week, I delivered a lecture on a World Health Organization report on acupuncture in our weekly morning meeting. It's a review article published in 2002 on controlled clinical trials.
Here is the original article.
In chapter 3, some diseases and disorders that can be treated with acupuncture are listed and categorized according to their effectiveness. Here's iseases, 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 (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
}Correction of malposition
of fetus
}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
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