World Health Organization

Traditional Chinese Medicine is recognized by the World Health Organization and the National institutes of Health. The 1997 NIH Consensus Conference on Acupuncture stated, “The data in support of acupuncture are as strong as those for many accepted Western medical therapies. One of the advantages of acupuncture is that the incidence of adverse effects is substantially lower than that of many drugs, or other medical procedures used for the same conditions.”

The World Health Organization (WHO)

Lists the following diseases, conditions and symptoms, through controlled trials,

To be effectively treated by acupuncture:

• Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy    
• Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
• Bilary colic
• Dental pain
• Depression
• Dysentary
• Dysmenorrhea
• Epigastrialgia (peptic ulcer, gastritis)
• Facial pain (craniomandibular disorders)
• Nausea and vomiting
• Headache
• Hypertension
• Hypotension
• Induction of labor
• Knee pain
• Leukopenia
• Low back pain
• Malposition of fetus
• Morning sickness
• Neck pain
• Periarthritis
• Postoperative pain
• Renal colic
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sciatica
• Sprain
• Stroke
• Tennis elbow