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Diseases and Disorders that can be treated with Acupuncture
Below is a short list of common conditions that may be treated with Acupuncture. These (more common) conditions are selected from a list of diseases and disorders that can be treated with Acupuncture, according to the World Health Organisation, from a review of controlled clinical trials.
| Hay Fever (Allergic Rhinitis) | Depression | Headache |
| Knee pain | Low back pain | Morning Sickness |
| Nausea and Vomiting | Neck pain | Temporomandibular joint dysfunction |
| Periarthritis of shoulder | Post-operative pain | Rheumatoid arthritis |
| Sciatica | Sprain | Stroke |
| Tennis elbow | Asthma | Cancer pain |
| Female Infertility | Fibromyalgia | Gout |
| Insomnia | Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic | Obesity |
| Osteoarthritis | Raynaud’s syndrome |
To read the full document, including the research reviewed, and full list of conditions that Acupuncture can help, please download: ‘Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials’ (PDF document) from the World Health Organisation website.
Complete list of conditions that may be treated with Acupuncture
Diseases, 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 |
| Malposition of fetus, correction of | 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 |
Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of Acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed:
| Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm) | Acne vulgaris | Alcohol dependence and detoxification |
| Bell’s palsy | Bronchial asthma | Cancer pain |
| Cardiac neurosis | Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation | Cholelithiasis |
| Competition stress syndrome | Craniocerebral injury, closed | Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent |
| Earache | Epidemic haemorrhagic fever | Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease) |
| Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection | Female infertility | Facial spasm |
| Female urethral syndrome | Fibromyalgia and fasciitis | Gastrokinetic disturbance |
| Gouty arthritis | Hepatitis B virus carrier status | Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3) |
| Hyperlipaemia | Hypo-ovarianism | Insomnia |
| Labour pain | Lactation, deficiency | Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic |
| Ménière disease | Neuralgia, post-herpetic | Neurodermatitis |
| Obesity | Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence | Osteoarthritis |
| Pain due to endoscopic examination | Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans | Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein–Leventhal syndrome) |
| Postextubation in children | Postoperative convalescence | Premenstrual syndrome |
| Prostatitis, chronic | Pruritus | Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome |
| Raynaud syndrome, primary | Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection | Reflex sympathetic dystrophy |
| Retention of urine, traumatic | Schizophrenia | Sialism, drug-induced |
| Sjögren syndrome | Sore throat (including tonsillitis) | Spine pain, acute |
| Stiff neck | Temporomandibular joint dysfunction | Tietze syndrome |
| Tobacco dependence | Tourette syndrome | Ulcerative colitis, chronic |
| Urolithiasis | Vascular dementia | Whooping cough (pertussis) |
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