Other Conditions

Other conditions can be helped by Traditional Chinese Herbs, Acupuncture, etc.:

• Bell’s Palsy
• Fatigue
• Hay Fever
• IBS
• Gastritis
• Tinnitus
• TMJ

The World Health Organisation Consultation On Acupuncture: “Acupuncture: Review And Analysis Of Reports On Controlled Clinical Trials”[1] Section 3: Diseases and disorders that can be treated with acupuncture:

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 (Period Pain)
• Epigastralgia (Stomach Ache), 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
• Low back pain
• Nausea and vomiting
• Neck pain
• Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
• Periarthritis of shoulder (frozen shoulder)
• Postoperative pain
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sciatica
• Sprain
• Stroke
• Tennis elbow

Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed:

• Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm) Acne vulgaris
• Bell’s palsy
• Bronchial asthma
• Cancer pain
• Cardiac neurosis
• Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation Cholelithiasis
• Competition stress syndrome
• Craniocerebral injury, closed
• Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
• Earache
• Female infertility
• Facial spasm
• Female urethral syndrome
• Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
• Gastrokinetic disturbance, e.g. Colitis
• Gouty arthritis
• Hyperlipaemia e.g. High Cholesterol
• Hypo-ovarianism
• Insomnia
• Labour pain
• Lactation, deficiency
• Ménière disease
• Neuralgia, post-herpetic Neurodermatitis
• Obesity
• Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein–Leventhal syndrome)
• Postoperative convalescence
• Premenstrual syndrome
• Prostatitis, chronic
• Pruritus (itching)
• Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome (esp. leading to leg & back pain)
• Raynaud syndrome, primary
• Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy e.g. lasting pain
• Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
• Spine pain, acute
• Stiff neck
• Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
• Tobacco dependence
• Tourette syndrome
• Ulcerative colitis, chronic
• Vascular dementia

[1] “Acupuncture: Review And Analysis Of Reports On Controlled Clinical Trials”, from the WHO Consultation on Acupuncture held in Cervia, Italy in 1996

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