(fra s.23-26 af WHO rapport)
Disease and disorders that can be treated with acupuncture.
The diseases or disorders for which acupuncture therapy has been tested in controlled clinical trials reported in the recent literature can be classified into four categories as shown below.
- Diaseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved-through controlled trials-to be an effective treatment.
- Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
- Allergic rhinitis (including Hay Fever)
- Biliary Colic Depression (incl. depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
- Dysentery, acute bacillary
- Dysmenorroea, primary
- Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
- Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
- Headache Hypertension, essential
- Hypotension, primary
- Induction of labour
- Knee pain
- Leukopenia
- Low back pain
- Morning sickness
- Nausea and vomiting
- Neck pain
- Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
- Periarthritis of Shoulder
- Postoperative pain
- Renal Colic
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sciatica
- Sprain Stroke
- Tennis Elbow
- 2. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of Acupuncture has been shown.
- Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
- Acne vulgaris
- Alcohol dependence and detoxification
- Bell’s palsy
- Bronchial asthima
- Cancer pain
- Cardiac neurosis
- Cholecystitis, Chronic, with acute exacerbation
- Cholelithiasis
- Competition stress syndrome
- Craniocerebral injury, closed
- Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
- Earache Epidemic haemorrhagic fever
- Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)
- Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
- Female infertility
- Facial spasm
- Female urethral syndrome
- Fibromyalgia and fascilitis
- Gastrokinetic disturbance
- Gouty arthritis
- Hepatitis B virus carrier status
- Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3)
- Hyperlipaemia Hypo-ovarianism
- Insomnia Labour pain
- Lactation, deficiency
- Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
- Menière disease
- Neuralgia, post-herpetic
- Neurodermatitis
- Obesity
- Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
- Osteoarthritis
- Pin due to endoscopic examination
- Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)
- Postextubation in childrenPostoperative convalescence
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Prostatitis, chronic
- Pruritus
- Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome
- Recurrent lower Urinary-tract infrction
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Retention of Urine, traumatic
- Schizpphrenia
- Sialism, drug-induced
- Sjögren syndrome
- Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
- Spine pain, acute
- Stiff neck
- temporomandibular joint dysfunction
- Tietze syndrome
- Tobacco dependence
- Tourette syndrome
- Ulcerative colitis, chronic
- Urolithiasis
- Vascular dementia
- Whooping cough (pertussis) m.m.
