What Do We Treat?
The following is a list of diseases, symptoms, or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown to be effective.
Female infertility
Female urethral syndrome
Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
Gastrokinetic disturbance
Gouty arthritis
Headache
Hepatitis B virus carrier status
Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpes virus 3)
Hyperlipaemia
Hypertension, essential
Hypo-ovarianism
Hypotension, primary
Induction of labor
Insomnia
Knee pain
Labor pain
Lactation, deficiency
Leukopenia
Low back pain
Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
Malposition of fetus, correction of
Ménière disease
Morning sickness
Nausea and vomiting
Neck pain
Neuralgia, post-herpetic
Neurodermatitis
Obesity
Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
Osteoarthritis
Pain due to endoscopic examination
Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
Abdominal pain
Acne vulgaris
Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Alcohol dependence and detoxification
Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
Bell’s palsy
Biliary colic
Bronchial asthma
Cancer pain
Cardiac neurosis
Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
Cholelithiasis
Competition stress syndrome
Craniocerebral injury, closed
Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
Dysentery, acute bacillary
Dysmenorrhoea, primary
Earache
Epidemic hemorrhagic fever
Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)
Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
Facial spasm
Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans
Periarthritis of shoulder
Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)
Postextubation in children
Postoperative convalescence
Postoperative pain
Premenstrual syndrome
Prostatitis, chronic
Pruritus
Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome
Raynaud syndrome, primary
Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Renal colic
Retention of urine, traumatic
Rheumatoid arthritis
Schizophrenia
Sciatica
Sialism, drug-induced
Sjögren syndrome
Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
Spine pain, acute
Sprain
Stiff neck
Stroke
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
Tennis elbow
Tietze syndrome
Tobacco dependence
Tourette syndrome
Ulcerative colitis, chronic
Urinary Incontinence
Urolithiasis
Vascular dementia
Whooping cough (pertussis)
