The list below is only a representative selection of diseases treated by acupuncture that are relatively easier to help. It does not mention the more difficult ones. While not a general panacea, acupuncture comprises a complete system of medicine within that branch of medicine that deals with treatment of disease. Remember this is preventive medicine.
A
Abscesses
Acne
Addiction (alcohol, drug, tobacco)
Anemia
Angina pectoris
Arthritis including early osteoarthritis
Asthma
B
Back Pain
Bell's Palsy
Bladder irritation and Spasm
Breast Lumps
Breath (shortness of bad breath, bad taste in mouth)
Bardycardia
Bursitis
C
Cardiovascular system (edema, myo and pericaditis, low blood pressure, poor circulation, arterial spasm, hyperthermia, pain or heaviness over cardiac area phlebitis)
Catarrh
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Colds (very effective)
Colic
Colitis and ulcerative colitis
Constipation
Coughs and mild pulmonary infections
Cramps
Cystitis
D
Diarrhea
Duodenal & stomach ulcer
Dyspepsia
E
Eczema (very effective)
Excessive perspiration
Excessive sleep
Excessive yawning
F
Fainting
Fears (timidity, obsessions, stage fright, nervousness)
Fibrositis facial palsy
G
Gastritis, peptic ulcer
Gouty arthritis
H
Hay fever
Headache (migraine, vasomotor, a tension)
Heartburn
Hepatitis
Hemorrhoids
Herpes simplex
Hives
Hyperactivity
Hypertension
I
Impotence
Inability to eat ordinary food
Insomnia
Itching skin
L
Lack of sexual desire
Laryngitis
Lassitude
Limbs (excessive weakness or heaviness and some types of trembling)
Liver dysfunction
Loss of smell (some types)
Lumbago (sciatica early slipped disc)
M
Meuniere's disease (disturbance of inner ear)
Menstrual problems
Morning sickness
Muscular rheumatism
N
Nausea-vomiting
Neuralgia of shoulders and arms
Neuro dermatitis
No appetite
Non-digestion of food
O
Oedema (muscular and pulmonary)
Ovarian pain
P
Paralysis (post-stroke, polio)
Pre-natal problems
Psoriasis (very effective)
R
Rheumatism (muscular)
S
Sexual problems
Shingles
T
Thyroid
Tonsilitis
Torbicolilis (twisted neck)
Trembling
Trigeminal Neuralgia
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