The World Health Organization first published a list of diseases that can be treated with acupuncture at the Philippines meeting in 1978. Later, this list of indications was expanded and accepted at the WHO Assembly in Cervia, Italy, in 1994.
Indications for acupuncture according to the World Health Organization
- Back and waist pains
- neck pain
- Sciatica
- tennis elbow
- Gonarthrosis (Knee calcification)
- Periarthritis of the shoulder
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- headaches
- Migraine
- Sinusitis
- Headaches due to tension and neck arthritis
- Dental pains (Toothaches)
- Temporo-mandibular joint dysfunction
- rheumatoidarthritis
- Post-operative pain
- labor induction
- Correcting the malposition of the baby in the womb
- Pregnancy nausea and vomiting
- Paralysis (within the first 3–6 months)
- essential hypertension
- renal colic
- leukopenia
- Treatment of side effects of radiation and chemotherapy
- allergic rhinitis
- acne vulgaris
- Alcohol addiction and detoxification
- Facial paralysis (Facial paralysis)
- asthma bronchiale
- In cancer pain
- Cholecystitis (Inflammation of the gallbladder)
- Cholelithiasis (Gallbladder stones)
- Stress
- panic attack
- Depression
- acute epigastralgia
- peptic ulcer
- Abdominal pains
- Fibromyalgia and tendinitis
- gouty arthritis
- Insomnia
- Reducing labor pain
- lack of milk
- obesity
- Morphine, cocaine addiction
- osteoarthritis
- Burger (Thrombo-angiitis obliterans) disease
- Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCO)
- premenstrual syndrome
- Chronic prostatitis
- pruritus
- Raynaud's syndrome
- Recurrent urinary infections
- urinary retention
- Nicotine addiction – Smoking cessation treatments
- ulcerative colitis
- spastic colon
- urolithiasis
- whooping cough
- Male sexual disorder (Impotence) (Non-Organic)
- Meniere's disease
- Post herpetic pains
- Type 2 diabetes mellitus
- earaches
- epistaxis
- Female infertility (without organic findings)
- biliary colic
- Primary dysmenorrhea