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

· Alcohol dependence and detoxification

· 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

· Epidemic haemorrhagic fever

· Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)

· Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection

· Female infertility

· Facial spasm

· Female urethral syndrome

· Fibromyalgia and fasciitis

· Gastrokinetic disturbance

· Gouty arthritis

· Hepatitis B virus carrier status

· Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3)

· Hyperlipaemia

· Hypo-ovarianism

· Insomnia

· Labour pain

· Lactation, deficiency

· Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic

· Ménière disease

· Neuralgia, post-herpetic

· Neurodermatitis

· Obesity

· Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence

· Osteoarthritis

· Pain due to endoscopic examination

· Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans

· Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)

· Postextubation in children

· Postoperative convalescence

· Premenstrual syndrome

· Prostatitis, chronic

· Pruritus

· Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome

· Raynaud syndrome, primary

· Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection

· Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

· Retention of urine, traumatic

· Schizophrenia

· Sialism, drug-induced

· Sjögren syndrome

· Sore throat (including tonsillitis)

· Spine pain, acute

· Stiff neck

· Temporomandibular joint dysfunction

· Tietze syndrome

· Tobacco dependence

· Tourette syndrome

· Ulcerative colitis, chronic

· Urolithiasis

· Vascular dementia

· Whooping cough (pertussis)

 

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