The chronic conditions listed below all appear on the World Health Organization list of conditions appropriate to treat with acupuncture.

I’ve worked with patients who’ve chosen acupuncture as a preferred means of treatment for all of these— in some cases they get relief from a single course of treatment while others are dealing with conditions that will never go away but for which they can happily manage their otherwise life disrupting conditions with regular treatments.

• Alcohol dependence and detoxification

• Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)

• Bell’s palsy

• Bronchial asthma

• Cancer pain

• Cholelithiasis

• Competition stress syndrome

• Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following

  stroke)

• Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent

• Earache

• Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)

• Facial spasm (including eyes)

• Female infertility

• Fibromyalgia and fasciitis

• Gouty arthritis

• Headache

• Hypertension, essential

• Hypotension, primary

• Knee pain

• Insomnia

• Low back pain

• Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic

• Ménière’s disease

• Morning sickness

• Neck pain

• Obesity

• Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence

• Osteoarthritis & Rheumatoid arthritis

• Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular

  dysfunction)

• Periarthritis of shoulder

• Premenstrual syndrome

• Sciatica

• Sjögren syndrome

• Sore throat (including tonsillitis)

• Sprain

• Stiff neck

• Stroke

• Temporomandibular joint dysfunction

• Tennis elbow (Golfer’s elbow too)

• Ulcerative colitis, chronic

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