Diseases Treated
One of the most common questions that new clients ask us is: "What can Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine treat?" . When we start listing the diseases that can be treated successfully, to be honest new patients are skeptical (at least until they start seeing the results themselves). We always have research as well as our own clinical experience to back our claims.
Diseases the World Health Organisation endorses Acupuncture as an effective treatment
To find out how effective Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine is for these conditions, just click on the disease name.
| Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm) |
| Acne vulgaris |
| Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy |
| Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever) |
| Bell’s palsy |
| Biliary colic |
| Breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
| Bronchial asthma |
| Cancer pain |
| Cardiac neurosis |
| Chloasma |
| Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation |
| Cholelithiasis |
| Choroidopathy, central serous |
| Colour blindness |
| Coma |
| Competition stress syndrome |
| Convulsions in infants |
| Coronary heart disease (angina pectoris) |
| Craniocerebral injury, closed |
| Deafness |
| Depression |
| Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent |
| Diarrhoea in infants and young children |
| Dysentery, acute bacillary |
| Dysmenorrhoea, primary |
| Earache |
| Encephalitis, viral, in children, late stage |
| Epidemic haemorrhagic fever |
| Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis) |
| Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease) |
| Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection |
| Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders) |
| Facial spasm |
| Female infertility |
| Female urethral syndrome |
| Fibromyalgia and fasciitis |
| Gastrokinetic disturbance |
| Gouty arthritis |
| Headache |
| Hepatitis B virus carrier status |
| Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpes virus 3) |
| Hyperglycaemia |
| Hypertension, essential |
| Hypo-ovarianism |
| Hypophrenia |
| Hypotension, primary |
| Induction of labour |
| Insomnia |
| Irritable colon syndrome |
| Knee pain |
| Labour pain |
| Lactation, deficiency |
| Leukopenia |
| Low back pain |
| Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic |
| Malposition of fetus, correction of |
| Ménière disease |
| Morning sickness |
| Nausea and vomiting |
| Neck pain |
| Neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury |
| Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular |
| Paralysis, progressive bulbar and pseudobulbar |
| Periarthritis of shoulder |
| Postoperative pain |
| Pulmonary heart disease, chronic |
| Renal colic |
| Rheumatoid arthritis |
| Sciatica |
| Small airway obstruction |
| Sprain |
| Stroke |
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| Tennis elbow |
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