Interesting TCM Facts 101: World Health Organization Recommends Acupuncture

Acupuncture has been around for thousands of years, yet till today, many controversies lie in the debate of it being just a placebo.

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While researches into acupuncture are still ongoing, the World Health Organization which set standards for governments and large organizations within the United Nations to follow and to improve the health of all world’s citizens has recommended acupuncture for over 100 health conditions through controlled trials and explicitly mentioned it to be an effective treatment.

Here are the list of diseases, symptoms or conditions recommended by WHO to be effective with the treatment of acupuncture at the year of 2021.

• 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

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