• Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Pain due to endoscopic examination
  • Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)
  • Postextubation in children
  • Postoperative convalescence
  • Premenstrual syndrome
  • Prostatitis, chronic
  • Pruritus
  • Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome
  • Raynard syndrome, primary
  • Recurrent lower urinary tract infection
  • Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
  • Retention of urine, traumatic
  • Schizophrenia
  • Sialism, drug-induced
  • Sjogren syndrome
  • Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
  • Spine pain, acute
  • Stuff neck
  • Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
  • Tietze syndrome
  • Tobacco dependence
  • Tourette syndrome
  • Ulcerative colitis, chronic
  • Urolithiasis
  • Vascular dementia
  • Whooping cough (pertussis)

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  • Leukopenia
  • Low back pain
  • ​Malposition of fetus, correction of Morning sickness
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Neck pain
  • Pain in dentistry (including dental pain & temporomandibular dysfunction)
  • Periarthritis of shoulder
  • Postoperative pain
  • Renal colic
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Sciatica
  • Sprain
  • Stroke 
  • Tennis elbow
  • Abdominal pain
  • Acne vulgaris
  • Alcohol dependence and detoxification
  • Bell's Palsy
  • Bronchial asthma
  • Cancer pain
  • Cardiac neurosis
  • Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
  • Cholelithiasis
  • Competition stress syndrome
  • Craniocerebral injury, closed
  • Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
  • Earache
  • Epidemic hemorrhagic fever
  • Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)
  • Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
  • Female infertility
  • Facial spasm
  • Female urethral syndrome
  • Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
  • Gastrokinetic disturbance
  • Gouty arthritis
  • Hepatitis B virus carrier status
  • Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpes virus 3)
  • Hyperlipaemia
  • Hypo-ovarianism
  • Insomnia
  • Labor pain
  • Lactation, deficiency
  • Male sexual dysfunction. non-organic
  • Meniere disease
  • Neuralgia, post-herpetic
  • Neurodermatitis
  • Obesity

According to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) the following diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proven  - through controlled trials - to be effective treatment are:

  • Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
  • Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
  • Biliary colic
  • Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following a stroke)
  • Dysentery, acute bacilary
  • Dysmenorrhoea, primary
  • Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute & chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
  • Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
  • Headache
  • Hypertension, essential
  • Hypotension, primary
  • Induction of labour
  • Knee pain​

Diseases, symptoms conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further clinical trials are needed:

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