| Dr. Bing You,
MD (China)Diplomate, American Academy of Pain
Management, Diplomate, NCCAOM, Associate Professor
for Acupuncture Studies |
Dr. Tao Ma, MD (China), Ph.D., Fellow, American
Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine, Diplomate,
NCCAOM, Assistant Professor for Acupuncture Studies |
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Diseases Veterinary Acupuncture Treats |
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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 (inch 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
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
- InsomniaLabor pain
- Lactation, deficiency
- Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
- Meniere disease
- Neuralgia, post-herpetic
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Continued - Diseases, symptoms
or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of
acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is
needed:
- 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)
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
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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