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The WHO Interregional Seminar drew up the following
provisional list of the diseases that lend themselves to acupuncture
treatment. The list is based on clinical experience, and not
necessarily on controlled clinical research; further more, the
inclusion of specific diseases is not meant to indicate the extent
of acupuncture's efficacy in treating them:
(WORLD HEALTH Dec.1979)
| Upper Respiratory Tract |
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- Acute sinusitis
- Acute rhinitis
- Common cold
- Acute tonsillitis
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| Respiratory System |
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- Acute bronchitis
- Bronchial asthma(most effective in childeren
and in
patients without complicating diseases) |
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| Disorders of the Eye |
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- Toothache
- Post-extraction pain
- Gingivitis
- Acute and chronic pharyngitis
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| Gastro-intestinal Disorders |
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- Spasms of oesophagus and cardia
- Hiccough
- Gastroptosis
- Acute and chronic gastritis
- Gastric hyperacidity
- Chronic duodenal ulcer(pain relief)
- Acute duodenal ulcer(without complications)
- Acute and chronic colitis
- Acute bacillary dysentery
- Constipation
- Diarrhoea
- Paralytic ileus
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| Neurological and Musculo-skeletal Disorders |
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- Headache
- Migrain
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Facial palsy (early stage, i.e. within three to six
months)
- Paresis following a stroke
- Peripheral neuropathies
- Sequelae of poliomyelitis (early stage, i.e. within six
months)
- Meniere's disease
- Neurogenic bladder dysfunction
- Nocturnal enuresis
- Intercostal neuralgia
- Cervicobrachial syndrome
- "Forzen shoulder"
- Tennis elbow"
- Sciatica
- Low back pain
- Osteoarthritis
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