WHO Acupuncture Clinic Trial Category A

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

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