What Does Acupuncture Treat?

What's-it-treat

 

The World Health Organization (WHO – the medical wing of the United Nations) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) here in the United States have recommended acupuncture for the treatment of the following conditions:

  • Addiction – alcohol, drug, smoking
  • Anxiety
  • Arthritis
  • Asthma
  • Bronchitis
  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Colitis
  • Common Cold
  • Constipation
  • Dental pain
  • Depression
  • Diarrhea
  • Digest Trouble
  • Dizziness
  • Dysentery
  • Emotional Problems
  • Eye Problems
  • Facial Palsy/Tics
  • Fatigue
  • Fertility
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Headache
  • Incontinence
  • Indigestion
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  • Labor Induction
  • Low Back Pain
  • Menopause
  • Menstrual Irregularities
  • Migraine
  • Morning Sickness
  • Nausea
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Pain
  • PMS
  • Pneumonia
  • Reproductive Problems
  • Rhinitis
  • Sciatica
  • Seasonal Affective Disorder
  • Shoulder Pain
  • Sinusitis
  • Sleep Disturbances
  • Sore Throat
  • Stress
  • Tennis Elbow
  • Tonsillitis
  • Tooth Pain
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia
  • Urinary Tract Infections
  • Vomiting
  • Wrist Pain

The United States military is currently employing acupuncture in the treatment of pain, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and mild traumatic brain injury.  It is now even being used in war zones, which they refer to as Battlefield Acupuncture.