The following is an excerpt from an official WHO document entitled “Acupuncture:
Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials.” Compiled by John A.
Amaro D.C., FIAMA, Dipl.Ac, L.Ac.
Email: DrAmaro@IAMA.edu
Diseases and disorders that have
beeen treated with acupuncture The diseases or disorders for which
acupuncture therapy has been tested in controlled clinical trials reported
in the recent literature can be classified into four categories as
shown below.
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 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)
Diseases, symptoms or conditions
for which there are only individual controlled trials reporting some
therapeutic effects, but for which acupuncture is worth trying because
treatment by conventional and other therapies is difficult:
Chloasma
Choroidopathy,
central serous
Colour
blindness
Deafness
Hypophrenia
Irritable
colon syndrome
Neuropathic
bladder in spinal cord injury
Pulmonary
heart disease, chronic
Small
airway obstruction
Diseases, symptoms or conditions
for which acupuncture may be tried provided the practitioner has
special modern medical knowledge and adequate monitoring equipment:
Breathlessness
in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Coma
Convulsions
in infants
Coronary
heart disease (angina pectoris)
Diarrhoea
in infants and young children
Encephalitis,
viral, in children, late stage
Paralysis,
progressive bulbar and pseudobulbar
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