Conditions Treated
Acupuncture is recognized by leading national and international health organizations to be effective in the treatment of a wide variety of medical problems including:
- Adverse reactions to radiotherapy or chemotherapy
- Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
- Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
- Bellโs palsy
- Cancer pain
- Chronic gastritis
- Morning sickness
- Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
- Dysmenorrhoea
- Earache
- Epistaxis
- Facial pain
- Facial spasm
- Female infertility
- Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
- Headache
- Hepatitis B virus carrier status
- Herpes zoster
- Hypertension
- Induction of labor
- Insomnia
- Knee pain
- Leucopenia
- Low back pain
- Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
- Malposition of fetus
- Nausea and vomiting
- Neck pain
- Obesity
- Osteoarthritis
- Peptic ulcer
- Arthritis of shoulder
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Postoperative pain
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Raynaud syndrome
- Renal colic
- Retention of urine, traumatic
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Schizophrenia
- Sciatica
- Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
- Spine pain, acute
- Sprain
- Stiff neck
- Stroke
- TMJ dysfunction
- Tennis elbow
- Tobacco dependence
- Ulcerative colitis, chronic
- Whooping cough (pertussis)
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