"Dr, Addleman, you have given me more time with Annie than would have been otherwise possible. This is the most beautiful gift I ever been given."

Sheryl

Why Acupuncture BENEFITS Pets...

1.  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 (incl. hay fever)

• Biliary colic

• Depression (incl depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)

• Dysentery, acute bacillary

• Dysmenorrhoea, primary

• Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and

• gastrospasm)

• Facial pain (incl. craniomandibular disorders) Hypertension, essential

• Headache

• Hypotension, primary

• Induction of labor

• Knee pain

• Leukopenia (low white blood cell count)

• Low back pain

• Malposition of fetus, correction of

• Morning sickness

• Nausea and vomiting

• Neck pain

• Pain in dentistry (incl. dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)

• Periarthritis of shoulder

• Postoperative pain

• Renal colic

• Rheumatoid arthritis

• Sciatica

• Sprain

• Stroke

• Tennis elbow

2.  Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed:

• Abdominal pain (acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)

• Acne vulgaris

• Alcohol dependence and detox

• Bell's palsy

• Bronchial asthma

• Cancer pain

• Cardiac neurosis

• Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation

• Cholelithiasis

• Competition stress syndrome

• Craniocerebral injury, closed

• Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent

• Earache

• Epidemic haemorrhagic fever

• Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)

• Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection

• Female infertility

• Female urethral syndrome

• Fibromyalgia and fasciitis

• Gastrokinetic disturbance

• Gouty arthritis

• Hepatitis B virus carrier status

• Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3)

• Hyperlipaemia

• Hypo-ovarianism

• Insomnia

2.  Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed:  (Continued)

• Labor pain

• Lactation, deficiency

• Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic

• Meniere disease

• Neuralgia, post-herpetic

• Neurodermatitis

• Obesity

• Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence

• Osteoarthritis

• Pain due to endoscopic examination Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans

• Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)

• Postextubation in children

• Postoperative convalescence

• Premenstrual syndrome

• Prostatitis, chronic

• Pruritus (Itching)

• Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome

• Raynaud syndrome, primary

• Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection

• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

• Retention of urine, traumatic

• Schizophrenia

• Sialism, drug-induced

• Sjogren syndrome

• Sore throat (including tonsillitis)

• Spine pain, acute

• Stiff neck

• Temporomandibular joint dysfunction Tietze syndrome

• Tobacco dependence

• Tourette syndrome

• Ulcerative colitis, chronic

• Urolithiasis

• Vascular dementia

• Whooping cough (pertussis)

3. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which there are only individual controlled trials reporting some therapeutic effects, but for which acupuncture is worth trying because treatment by conventional and other therapies is difficult:

• Chloasma

• Choroidopathy, central serous

• Colour blindness

• Deafness

• Hypophrenia

• Irritable colon syndrome

• Neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury

• Pulmonary heart disease, chronic

• Small airway obstruction

4. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture may be tried provided the practitioner has special modern medical knowledge and adequate monitoring equipment: Breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:

• Coma

• Convulsions in infants

• Coronary heart disease (angina pectoris)

• Diarrhea in infants and young children

• Encephalitis, viral, in children, late stage

• Paralysis, progressive bulbar and pseudobulbar

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