The National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization have recognized acupuncture to be of benefit in the following conditions:
- Any acute infectious or inflammatory condition
- Any dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system (that part of our bodies not under voluntary control), e.g irritable bowel syndrome
- Chronic pain esp. fibromyalgia, low back pain, tennis elbow
- Menstrual disorders
- Hypertension
- Migraine headaches
- Raynaud’s disease
- Ischemic heart disease
- Tinnitus
- Drug abuse
- Mood disorders
- Peripheral and central neurological disorders e.g pinched nerves, stroke paralysis
- Asthma and upper respiratory disorders
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Multiple sclerosis