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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