What is Acupuncture?

Acupuncture is an old medical art. In terms of medicine, it has been used for more than a thousand years. Acupuncture promotes natural healing. Each patient is custom treated, and the procedure is done by inserting needles and applying electrical stimulation or heat at precise acupuncture points. Acupuncture treats various medical conditions, promotes health and well-being, and prevents illnesses.



The World Health Organization recommends acupuncture for these diseases, symptoms, or conditions, because acupuncture has been ‘proved– through controlled trials – to be an effective treatment:

1. Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
2. Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
3. Biliary colic 4. Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
5. Dysentery, acute bacillary
6. Dysmenorrhea, primary
7. Epigastric pain, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastric spasm)
8. Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
9. Headache
10. Hypertension, essential
11. Hypotension, primary
12. Induction of labor
13. Knee pain
14. Leukopenia
15. Low back pain
16. Malposition of fetus, correction of
17. Morning sickness
18. Nausea and vomiting
19. Neck pain
20. Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
21. Periarthritis of the shoulder
22. Postoperative pain
23. Renal colic
24. Rheumatoid arthritis
25. Sciatica
26. Sprain
27. Stroke
28. Tennis elbow

Diseases, symptoms, or conditions for which The World Health Organization recommends acupuncture because it's therapeutic the effect has been shown, although further proof is needed:

1. Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
2. Acne vulgaris
3. Alcohol dependence and detoxification
4. Bell’s palsy
5. Bronchial asthma
6. Cancer pain
7. Cardiac neurosis
8. Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
9. Cholelithiasis
10. Competition stress syndrome
11. Craniocerebral injury, closed
12. Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
13. Earache
14. Epidemic hemorrhagic fever
15. Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)
16. Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
17. Female infertility
18. Facial spasm
19. Female urethral syndrome
20. Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
21. Gastro intestinal disturbance
22. Gouty arthritis
23. Hepatitis B virus carrier status
24. Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpes virus 3)
25. Hyperlipidemia
26. Hypo-ovarian function (infertility)
27. Insomnia
28. Labor pain
29. Lactation, deficiency
30. Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
31. Meniere disease
32. Neuralgia, post-herpetic
33. Neurodermatitis

34. Obesity
35. Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
36. Osteoarthritis
37. Pain due to endoscopic examination
38. Pain in trombonists obliterans
39. Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein–Leventhal syndrome)
40. Postoperative convalescence
41. Premenstrual syndrome
42. Prostatitis, chronic
43. Pruritus
44. Radicular pain syndrome
45. Raynaud syndrome, primary
46. Recurrent lower urinary tract infection
47. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
48. Retention of urine, traumatic
49. Schizophrenia
50. Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
51. Spine pain, acute
52. Stiff neck
53. Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
54. Tietze syndrome
55. Tobacco dependence
56. Tourette syndrome
57. Ulcerative colitis, chronic
58. Urolithiasis
59. Vascular dementia
60. Whooping cough (pertussis)


These diseases can be bold or highlighted:

• Insomnia
• Anxiety and stress
• Depression
• Low back pain and sciatica
• Knee joint pain
• Wrist pain
• Shoulder pain
• Neck pain
• Cometic acupuncture for age wrinkle on face, rejuvenation
• and beauty
• Bell’s palsy and dropped eyelid
• Obesity and lose weight
• Immune system busting
• Headache and migraine
• Infertility