What Does Acupuncture 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.