Evidence from the World Health Organization
Offered by Jessica Ahmed, Licensed Acupuncturist
Many people know of acupuncture as a safe and effective treatment for pain, but there are myriad other uses. Below is a partial list of conditions for which the World Health Organization finds acupuncture effective:
- Acute bronchitis
- Acute sinusitis
- Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
- Allergic rhinitis / hay fever
- Asthma
- Common cold
- Constipation
- Depression
- Diarrhea
- Dysmenorrhea
- Facial pain
- Frozen shoulder
- Headache and migraine
- Hypertension and hypotension
- Induction of Labor
- Knee pain
- Low back pain
- Malposition of fetus
- Morning sickness
- Nausea and vomiting
- Neck pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain in dentistry
- Periarthritis of shoulder
- Peripheral neuropathies
- Postoperative pain
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sciatica
- Sprain
- Stroke
- Tennis elbow
- Trigeminal neuralgia
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