World Health Organization and what it says about Traditional Medicine

(Excerpt from the World Health Organization website. Please visit them for more information.)

The diseases or disorders for which acupuncture therapy has been tested in controlled clinical trials reported in the recent literature can be classified into four categories as shown below.

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