Acupuncture Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials (World Health Organisation , WHO)
On 7th of April 1948, The World Health Organisation (WHO) work on the vision of ‘a world in which everyone can live healthy, productive lives, regardless of who they are or where they live’. Together over 150 countries the WHO, work alongside policy makers and advisors ‘to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people’. And based on their research, the World Health Organisation recommends Acupuncture.
Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved— through controlled trials—to be an effective treatment:
Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
Biliary colic
Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
Dysentery, acute bacillary
Dysmenorrhoea, primary
Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
Headache
Hypertension, essential
Hypotension, primary Induction of labour
Knee pain
Leukopenia
Low back pain
Malposition of fetus, correction of
Morning sickness
Nausea and vomiting
Neck pain
Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
Periarthritis of shoulder
Postoperative pain
Renal colic
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sciatica Sprain
Stroke
Tennis elbow
Adapted From WHO reports. Note: Disease not mention do not mean acupuncture is ineffective but the study and review is somehow difficult.