The World Health Organization Interregional Seminar drew up the following provisional list of diseases that lend themselves to acupuncture treatment. The list is based on clinical experience, and not necessarily on controlled clinical research: furthermore, the inclusion of specific diseases are not meant to indicate the extent of acupuncture’s efficacy in treating them.
***The associated success stories are not an implied guarantee.
| INFECTIONS | EYES-EARS-NOSE-THROAT |
| colds and flues | deafness |
| bronchitis | ringing in the ear |
| hepatitis | menier’s |
| earaches | |
| INTERNAL | poor eyesight |
| hypoglycemia | dizziness |
| asthma | sinus infection |
| high blood pressure | sore throat |
| ulcers | hay fever |
| colitis | |
| indigestion | DERMATOLOGICAL |
| hemorrhoids | eczema |
| diarrhea | acne |
| constipation | herpes |
| diabetes | |
| MUSCULO-SKELETAL and NEUROLOGICAL | GENITO-URINARY and REPRODUCTIVE |
| arthritis | impotence |
| neuralgia | infertility |
| sciatica | pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) |
| frozen shoulder | pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) |
| tennis elbow | vaginitis |
| back pain | irregular period or cramps |
| bursitis | morning sickness |
| tendonitis | |
| stiff neck | |
| Bell’s palsy | MENTAL-EMOTIONAL |
| trigeminal neuralgia | anxiety |
| headache | depression |
| stroke | stress |
| cerebral palsy | insomnia |
| polio | |
| meneir’s disease | |
| sprains |
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