Clinical Trials
The following is a list of diseases, symptoms or conditions that has been compiled by the World Health Organisation for which acupuncture has been tested in controlled clinical trials and has proven to be effective in treating:
| Abdominal pain Acne Vulgaris Allergic Rhinitis/hay fever Bell's Palsy Bronchial Asthma Cancer pain Cardiac neurosis Cholecystitis Competition Stress Syndrome Craniocerebral injury Depression Diabetes Mellitus type 2 Dysentery, acute bacillary Dysmenorrhoea, primary Earache Epigastralgia, acute Epistaxis Facial pain Facial spasm Female infertility Female urethral syndrome Fibromyalgia and Fasciitits Gouty Arthritis Headache |
Herpes Zoster Hyperlipaemia Hypertension Hypo-ovarianism Hypotension Induction of labour Insomnia Knee pain Labour pain Leukopenia Low back pain Male sexual dysfunction Malposition of fetus Menieres disease Morning sickness Nausea & Vomiting Neck pain / stiff neck Neuralgia, post-herpetic Neurodermatitis Obesity Opium, heroine & cocaine dependence Osteoarthritis Pain in dentistry Frozen shoulder |
Polycystic ovary syndrome Postoperative convalescence Postoperative pain Premenstrual syndrome Prostatitis Pruritis Raynaud syndrome Reactions to radiotherapy/chemotherapy Lower urinary tract infection Reflex sympathetic dystrophy Rheumatoid arthritis Sciatica Sore throat/tonsillitis Spine pain, acute Sprain Stroke Tennis/golfers elbow Temporomandibular joint dysfunction Tietze syndrome Tobacco dependence Tourette syndrome Ulcerative colitis, chronic |