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| Conditions Commonly Treated with Acupuncture Compiled from reports written by The World Health Organization and National Institutes of Health |
Due to increases in popularity and demand for acupuncture in the United States the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) held a consensus development conference in November 1997.
Although some of the data presented in this conference is now dated, it was the first time the
U.S. showed data in support of acupuncture as strong as those for many accepted western
medical therapies. It also concluded that incidence of adverse effects of acupuncture is
substantially lower than that of many drugs or other accepted procedures used for the same
conditions. The NIH report stated that the following conditions were indicated for treatment
with acupuncture:
Low Back pain/sciatica Knee pain
Headache Post-operative pain
Neck pain Tennis elbow
Stroke rehabilitation Nausea and vomiting
Hayfever Addiction
Infertility Asthma
Menstrual cramps Fibromyalgia
Insomnia
Shingles
The full report can be found online at http://consensus.nih.gov/1997/1997Acupuncture107html.
htm
Succeeding the 1997 NIH consensus statement was The World Health Organization’s (WHO)
2002 report entitled “Acupuncture: Review and analysis of reports on controlled clinical
trials”. In this report the WHO classified many of the diseases and disorders for which
acupuncture has been tested through controlled trials and found to be efficacious. These
conditions include but are not limited to:
Adverse reaction to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Allergic rhinitis Stroke
Depression Sprains
Dysmenorrhea Renal colic
Acute Epigastralgia Hypertension
Facial pain Hypotension
Headache Leukopenia
Neck pain, knee pain, low back pain
Morning sickness Malposition of fetus
Rheumatoid arthritis
The full WHO report can be obtained (for a fee) from the WHO at this web address:
http://www.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?=1&codlan=1&codcol=93&codcch=196
To learn more about acupuncture and acupuncture research I would recommend the following
internet resources:
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/acupuncture/#safe
American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
http://www.aaaomonline.org/
Institutes of Health (NIH) held a consensus development conference in November 1997.
Although some of the data presented in this conference is now dated, it was the first time the
U.S. showed data in support of acupuncture as strong as those for many accepted western
medical therapies. It also concluded that incidence of adverse effects of acupuncture is
substantially lower than that of many drugs or other accepted procedures used for the same
conditions. The NIH report stated that the following conditions were indicated for treatment
with acupuncture:
Low Back pain/sciatica Knee pain
Headache Post-operative pain
Neck pain Tennis elbow
Stroke rehabilitation Nausea and vomiting
Hayfever Addiction
Infertility Asthma
Menstrual cramps Fibromyalgia
Insomnia
Shingles
The full report can be found online at http://consensus.nih.gov/1997/1997Acupuncture107html.
htm
Succeeding the 1997 NIH consensus statement was The World Health Organization’s (WHO)
2002 report entitled “Acupuncture: Review and analysis of reports on controlled clinical
trials”. In this report the WHO classified many of the diseases and disorders for which
acupuncture has been tested through controlled trials and found to be efficacious. These
conditions include but are not limited to:
Adverse reaction to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Allergic rhinitis Stroke
Depression Sprains
Dysmenorrhea Renal colic
Acute Epigastralgia Hypertension
Facial pain Hypotension
Headache Leukopenia
Neck pain, knee pain, low back pain
Morning sickness Malposition of fetus
Rheumatoid arthritis
The full WHO report can be obtained (for a fee) from the WHO at this web address:
http://www.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?=1&codlan=1&codcol=93&codcch=196
To learn more about acupuncture and acupuncture research I would recommend the following
internet resources:
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/acupuncture/#safe
American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
http://www.aaaomonline.org/