What Can Acupuncture Treat?

The WHO and NIH List of Conditions Responsive to Acupuncture Treatment

The World Health Organization (WHO), the medical branch of the United Nations, issued a provisional list of diseases responsive to acupuncture treatment, The WHO Viewpoint on Acupuncture in 1980. The National Institutes of Health has also released a list of responsive conditions. See their websites for a full listing. Included below, but not limited to, are the following responsive conditions:  

Respiratory conditions including:

• acute sinusitis
• allergies
• common cold
• bronchitis
• bronchial asthma

  Conditions of the eye including:

• acute conjunctivitis
• myopia in children
• cataracts

  Conditions of the mouth, such as:

• toothaches
• gingivitis
• acute and chronic pharyngitis

  Gastrointestinal conditions, such as:

• acute and chronic gastritis
• acute and chronic duodenal ulcer
• acute colitis
• constipation
• diarrhea
• irritable bowel syndrome
• dysentery
• gastric hyperacidity

  Neurological and musculoskeletal conditions including:

• headache
• migraine
• trigeminal neuralgia
• facial palsy
• paralysis following stroke
• Meniere's disease
• bedwetting
• frozen shoulder
• tennis elbow
• sciatica
• low back pain
• osteoarthritis