Acupuncture Indications

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The WHO (World Health Organization), first collected in the Philippines in 1978, published a list of acupuncture treatable diseases. Then I have my participation as observers from Turkey of 1994 is the indication list was expanded in the WHO Assembly adopted Cervia in Italy.

Disease on which the effect of acupuncture has been proved with studies with Scientific Control group:

  • Back and lower back pains
  • Neck pains
  • Sciatica
  • Tennis elbow
  • Knee pain (Gonarthrosis=arthritis at knee)
  • Arthritis at shoulder
  • Facial (trigeminal neuralgia) pain
  • Headaches (Headaches related to migraine, sinusitis, stress and neck arthritis)
  • Dental (tooth) aches
  • Temporomandibular Dysfunction (Jaw joint discomfort)
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Pains after operation
  • Labor induction (Easy childbirth)
  • Adjusting the position of baby in the mother’s womb (malposition)
  • Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
  • Paralysis (within first 3–6 months)
  • Hypertension (Essential hypertension)
  • Renal colic (Kidney stone pain)
  • Leucopenia (In the condition of decrease of white blood cells)
  • At the treatment of side effects of radiation and chemotherapy
  • Allergic rhinitis
  • Biliary colic (Gall bladder stone pain)
  • Depression
  • Acute bacillary dysentery
  • Primary dysmenorrhea (Menstruation, menstruation with pain)
  • Acute epigastralgia
  • Peptic ulcer (Stomach and duodenum ulcer)
  • Acute and chronic gastritis
  • Abdominal (stomach) pains
  • Acne vulgaris (pimple)
  • Alcohol addiction and detoxification (purification)
  • Peripheral facial paralysis
  • Bronchial asthma
  • Cancer pains
  • Cardiac (heart) neurosis (psychological pains)
  • Cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder)
  • Cholelitiasis (stone of gall bladder)
  • Stress
  • Diabetes Mellitus (Insulin independent=Type 2)
  • Ear ache (with no reason)
  • Epistaxis (Bleeding from nose)
  • Woman infertility (With no organic finding)
  • Facial spasm
  • Fibromyalgia and tendinitis (Discomfort of muscles and tendons)
  • Gout arthritis
  • Insomnia
  • Decreasing labor pains
  • Lack of breast feedings
  • Male sexual malfunction (Nonorganic)
  • Meniere’s disease
  • Pains after post herpetic (Pains Following infection with herpes)
  • Obesity
  • Morphine, cocaine and heroin addiction
  • Osteoarthritis (bone arthritis)
  • Buerger’s disease (Thromboangiitis obliterans)
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Premenstrual syndrome
  • Chronic prostates
  • Itchiness with no reason
  • Raynaud syndrome
  • Repetitive lower urinary tract infection
  • Urinary retention (Remaining inside)
  • Sjogren’s syndrome
  • Sore throat (related to Tonsillitis)
  • Sudden spasm of neck muscles (pang)
  • Nicotine addiction
  • Ulcerative colitis (Spastic colon)
  • Urinary tract stones
  • Whooping cough