Conditions Treated with Acupuncture

The following is a list from the World Health Organization of conditions successfully treated with acupuncture. If you have interest in an ailment not listed below, Traditional Chinese Medicine may treat it, so please contact us with any questions.

Respiratory and Immune:

  • Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
  • Acute bronchitis
  • Bronchial asthma
  • Acute sinusitis
  • Acute rhinitis
  • Common cold
  • Acute tonsillitis
  • Leukopenia (low white blood cells)
  • Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
  • Hepatitis B virus carrier status
  • Herpes zoster
  • Epidemic hemorrhagic fever
  • whooping cough

Gastrointestinal/ Digestive:

  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Constipation
  • Diarrhea
  • Dysentery, acute bacillary
  • Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
  • Ulcerative colitis, chronic
  • peptic ulcer, acute
  • acute and chronic gastritis
  • gastrospasm
  • Cholelithiasis
  • Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
  • Gastrokinetic disturbance
  • Spasm of the esophagus and cardiac muscle
  • Hiccups
  • Gastroptosis
  • Gastric hyperacidity
  • Chronic duodenal ulcer
  • Acute and chronic colitis
  • Acute bacterial dysentery
  • Paralytic ileus

Cardiovascular:

  • Hypertension, essential
  • Hypotension, primary
  • Hyperlipidemia
  • Raynaud syndrome, primary

Addiction:

  • Alcohol dependence and detoxification
  • Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
  • Tobacco dependance

Neurological:

  • Bell’s palsy
  • Craniocerebral injury, closed
  • Facial spasm Neuralgia, post-herpetic
  • Neurodermatitis
  • Eyes, Ears, Throat, mouth:
  • Earache
  • Ménière disease
  • Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
  • Acute conjunctivitis
 Mental and Emotional:

  • Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
  • Competition stress syndrome
  • PTSD
  • Vascular dementia
  • Schizophrenia

Reproductive and Genitourinary:

  • Dysmenorrhoea, primary
  • Premenstrual syndrome
  • Delayed labour
  • Labor pain
  • Malposition of fetus
  • Morning sickness
  • Female infertility
  • Hypo-ovarianism
  • Female urethral syndrome
  • Lactation deficiency
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)
  • Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
  • Prostatitis, chronic
  • Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
  • Retention of urine, traumatic
  • Urolithiasis
  • Renal colic
  • Pain and Musculoskeletal disorders:
  • Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
  • Headache
  • Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
  • Knee pain
  • Low back pain
  • Neck pain
  • Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
  • Periarthritis of shoulder
  • Postoperative pain
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Sciatica
  • Sprain
  • Stroke
  • Tennis elbow
  • Spine pain, acute
  • Stiff neck
  • Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Cancer pain
  • Gouty arthritis
  • Pain due to endoscopic examination
  • Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans
  • Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome

Other:

  • Acne
  • Insomnia
  • Obesity
  • Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
  • Pruritus

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