Acupuncture

Acupuncture is among the oldest healing practices in the world, as part of traditional Chinese medicine, a whole medical system that originated in China. It is based on the concept that disease results from disruption in the flow of Qi and imbalance in the forces of Yin and Yang.

Literally Acupuncture means inserting needles into the body to stimulate it. This helps treat chronic or acute pain, and many other physical or mental conditions.

The World Health Organization lists over forty diseases that respond to acupuncture therapy. Here is a list of most of the conditions treatable by Acupuncture.

link to

https://chiro.org/acupuncture/FULL/Acupuncture_WHO_2003.pdf 

Addictions

• Alcoholic Addiction
• Opium, Cocaine and Heroin Addiction
• Tobacco Dependence

Cardiovascular

• Essential Hypertension
• Cardiac Neurosis
• Pain due to Thromboangitis Obliterans
• Vascular Dementia
• Pulmonary Heart Disease

Dermatological

• Acne Vulgaris
• Herpes Zoster
• Pruritus

Ear, Eyes, Nose and Dental

• Dental Pain
• Temporomandibular Joint Pain (TMJ)
• Earache
• Epistaxis, simple
• Eye Pain due to Subconjunctival Injection
• Meniere’s Disease
• Sialism, drug-induced
• Sjogren Syndrome

Gastro-Intestinal

• Biliary Colic
• Dysentery
• Epigastralgia
• Gastritis, acute and chronic
• Nausea and Vomiting
• Peptic Ulcer, acute
• Abdominal Pain
• Cholecystitis
• Cholelithiasis
• Diabetes Mellitus, non insulin dependent
• Gastrokinetic Disturbance
• Ulcerative Colitis, chronic
• Irritable Colon Syndrome

Gynecological, Obstetric

• Labor, induction of
• Mal-position of Fetus
• Morning Sickness
• Female Infertility
• Female Urethral Syndrome
• Hypo-ovarianism
• Labor Pain
• Lactation Deficiency
• Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
• Premenstrual Syndrome

Infectious

• Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever
• Hepatitis B virus carrier status
• Sore Throat
• Tonsillitis
• Whooping Cough

Musculo-Skeletal

• Knee Pain
• Low Back Pain
• Neck Pain
• Shoulder Arthritis
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Sciatica
• Sprain
• Tennis Elbow
• Temporomandibular Joint Pain (TMJ)
• Fibromyalgia
• Gouty Arthritis
• Osteoarthritis
• Spine Pain, acute
• Stiff Neck
• Tietze Syndrome

Neurological

• Facial Pain
• Headache
• Post-Surgical Pain
• Stroke Rehab
• Bell’s Palsy
• Cranial Cerebral Injury
• Facial Spasm
• Meniere’s Disease
• Neuralgia, post-herpetic
• Radicular and Pseudoradicular Pain Syndrome
• Raynaud Syndrome
• Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
• Tourette Syndrome
• Neuropathic Bladder in Spinal cord Injury

Psychological

• Depression
• Competition Stress Syndrome
• Insomnia
• Schizophrenia

Respiratory

• Allergic Rhinitis
• Asthma
• Small Airway Obstruction
• Breathlessness in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Urological

• Renal Colic
• Female Urethral Syndrome
• Male Sexual Dysfunction
• Prostatitis, chronic
• Recurrent Lower Urinary Tract Infection
• Retention of Urine, traumatic
• Urolithiasis

Other

• Adverse Reactions to Chemotherapy or Radiotherapy
• Cancer Pain
• Hyperlipaemia
• Obesity
• Pain due to endoscopic exam
• Postextubation in children
• Postoperative convalescence