1. Diseases, 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 (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
- Dysentery, acute bacillary
- Dysmenorrhoea, 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
- Malposition of fetus, correction of 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 but for which further proof (ie. Randomized, double-blinded peer reviewed studies) is needed:
- Abdominal Pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
- Acne
- Alcohol dependence and detoxification
- Bell’s palsy
- Bronchial asthma
- Cancer pain
- Cardiac neurosis
- Competition stress syndrome
- Diabetes mellitus
- Earache
- Epistaxis, (nosebleeds)
- Eye pain
- Female infertility
- Facial spasm
- Female urethral syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Gouty arthritis
- Hepatitis B virus carrier status
- Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus dysfunction)
- Tobacco dependence
- Tourette syndrome
- Insomnia
- Labour pain
- Lactation deficiency
- Male sexual dysfunction
non-organic - Ménière disease
- Neuralgia post-herpetic
- Neurodermatitis
- Obesity
- Osteoarthritis Pain
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Raynaud syndrome primary
- Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Retention of urine
- Sjögren syndrome
- Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
- Spine pain
- Stiff neck
- Temporomandibular (TMJ) joint dysfunction
- Tourette syndrome
- Ulcerative colitis
- Vascular dementia
- Whooping cough (pertussis)
