What can Acupuncture Treat?

Acupuncture is recognized by leading national and international health organizations to be effective in the treatment of a wide variety of medical problems. 

• Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
• Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
• Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
• Bell’s palsy
• Cancer pain
• Chronic gastritis
• Morning sickness
• Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
• Dysmenorrhoea
• Earache
• Epistaxis
• Facial pain
• Facial spasm
• Female infertility
• Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
• Headache
• Hepatitis B virus carrier status
• Herpes zoster
• Hypertension
• Induction of labor
• Insomnia
• Knee pain
• Leukopenia
• Low back pain
• Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
• Malposition of fetus
• Nausea and vomiting
• Neck pain
• Obesity
• Osteoarthritis
• Pain in dentistry
• Peptic ulcer
• Periarthritis of shoulder
• Polycystic ovary syndrome
• Postoperative pain
• Premenstrual syndrome
• Prostatitis
• Raynaud syndrome
• Renal colic
• Retention of urine, traumatic
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Schizophrenia
• Sciatica
• Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
• Spine pain, acute
• Sprain
• Stiff neck
• Stroke
• TMJ dysfunction
• Tennis elbow
• Tobacco dependence
• Ulcerative colitis, chronic
• Whooping cough (pertussis)