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In 2003, the World Health Organization and the National Institute for Health published a Consensus study which listed many diseases for which acupuncture is an effective treatment. Just a few examples are listed below.

Abdominal pain            
Acne vulgaris           
Alcohol dependence
Allergic rhinitis
Adverse chemotherapy (or
radiotherapy reactions)
Bell’s palsy           
Bronchial asthma           
Cancer pain           
Cardiac neurosis
Detoxification
Depression
Drug dependence
Dysentery
Earache           
Eye pain
Facial pain           
Facial Spasm           
Fibromyalgia
Gall stones
Gastritis   
Gastrokinetic disturbance
Gouty arthritis
       

Headache
Head injury/concussion
Hepatitis B
High blood pressure
Herpes zoster (shingles)           
Hyperlipaemia           
Hypo-ovarianism 
Infertility       
Insomnia
Irritable bowel syndrome
Knee pain
Low blood pressure           
Low back pain   
Male sexual dysfunction           
Ménière disease
Menstrual cramps
Morning sickness             
Nausea and vomiting           
Neck pain
Neuralgia            
Neurodermatitis
Nose bleed
Obesity

 

Osteoarthritis 
Pain 
PMS
Prostatitis           
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Postoperative pain
Raynaud syndrome
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sciatica  
Small airway obstruction           
Sore throat
(including tonsillitis)           
Spine pain
Sprain          
Stiff neck
Stomach pain
Stroke    
Tennis elbow
TMJ syndrome           
Tobacco dependence
Type II Diabetes             
Ulcerative colitis, chronic
Urinary-tract infection 



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