diseases treated with acupuncture

Acupuncture and other techniques that are used with acupuncture have a wide variety of applications and treat a broad range of symptoms. Many conditions and many of the body's systems can be successfully treated with these techniques. 

Acupuncture is known for treating many symptoms that western medicine has a difficulty with. In general, acupuncture is especially effective with chronic conditions that are unresponsive to curative medical intervention. 
        
Click here for a list of diseases according to the WHO and NIH.  
             
Visit the symptom  index to relate symptoms or disorders to the acupuncture points or visit the acupuncture point center to access a complete and comprehensive database of the acupuncture points.

 
Philosophically, Chinese Medicine attempts to balance the body's metabolism, hormones and other processes allowing the body to re-establish health through the balancing mechanisms of self-healing. Acupuncture does not, in its pure form, seek to cover over symptoms but to bring about foundational change that enables the body to reach balance, thus eliminating both the symptoms and the underlying imbalance. 

  This is not to say that acupuncture can not work on specific symptoms. Research has been done to show the power of acupuncture to immediately eliminate pain, nausea, cravings, and other conditions. Most recently, Dr. Marc Hochberg of the University of Maryland presented his research findings at the American College of Rheumatology that proved acupuncture to be clinically important in the relief of pain with arthritis (knee osteoarthritis). 

     An NIH consensus panel of scientists, researchers, and practitioners in 1997 determined that acupuncture has been clinically proven to be effective against nausea from surgery and chemotherapy, addiction, headaches, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, osteoarthritis, lower back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma, and to assist in stroke rehabilitation. Since then, other studies have looked at pain, ADHD, pregnancy complications, and other diseases and conditions.

    The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified these following symptoms and conditions that may successfully be  treated with acupuncture. 

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MUSCULO-SKELETAL
     *Arthritis
     *Back pain
     *Neck pain
     *Shoulder and arm pain
     *Cramping muscles
     *Disc problems
     *Sciatica
     *Fibromyalgia