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Acupuncture has been utilized for millenia to treat myriad conditions. The World Health Organization (WHO) published a review of diseases and disorders that can be treated with acupuncture. A brief mention of the disorders and diseases that can be treated with acupuncture are listed below. The full text can be accessed here.
Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm) Acne vulgaris Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy Alcohol dependence and detoxification Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever) Bell’s palsy Biliary colic Breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Bronchial asthma Cancer pain Cardiac neurosis Chloasma Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation Cholelithiasis Choroidopathy, central serous Colour blindness Coma Competition stress syndrome Convulsions in infants Coronary heart disease (angina pectoris) Craniocerebral injury, closed Deafness Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke) Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent Diarrhoea in infants and young children Dysentery, acute bacillary Dysmenorrhoea, primary Earache Encephalitis, viral, in children, late stage Epidemic haemorrhagic fever Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm) Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease) Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders) Facial spasm Female infertility Female urethral syndrome Fibromyalgia and fasciitis Gastrokinetic disturbance Gouty arthritis Headache Hepatitis B virus carrier status Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3) Hyperlipaemia Hypertension, essential Hypo-ovarianism Hypophrenia Hypotension, primary Induction of labour Insomnia Irritable colon syndrome Knee pain Labour pain Lactation, deficiency Leukopenia Low back pain Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic Malposition of fetus, correction of Ménière disease Morning sickness Nausea and vomiting Neck pain Neuralgia, post-herpetic Neurodermatitis Neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury Obesity Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence Osteoarthritis Pain due to endoscopic examination Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction) Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans Paralysis, progressive bulbar and pseudobulbar Periarthritis of shoulder Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein–Leventhal syndrome) Postextubation in children Postoperative convalescence Postoperative pain Premenstrual syndrome Prostatitis, chronic Pruritus Pulmonary heart disease, chronic Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome Raynaud syndrome, primary Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection Reflex sympathetic dystrophy Renal colic Retention of urine, traumatic Rheumatoid arthritis Schizophrenia Sciatica Sialism, drug-induced Sjögren syndrome Small airway obstruction Sore throat (including tonsillitis) Spine pain, acute Sprain Stiff neck Stroke Temporomandibular joint dysfunction Tennis elbow Tietze syndrome Tobacco dependence Tourette syndrome Ulcerative colitis, chronic Urolithiasis Vascular dementia Whooping cough (pertussis)