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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.
1.
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
2.
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)
3.
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
4.
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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