What does the World Health Organization (WHO) say about acupuncture?
In 2002, the WHO issued a report entitled Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials. It lists four categories of conditions for which acupuncture may be considered effective. Order a full copy from the WHO here. A short summary follows:
NB: While it is important to utilize the concept of controlled clinical trials to learn more about the factors leading to successful treatment with acupuncture, the limitations of such trials are that individual factors and patient characteristics are de-emphasized, and individualized treatments are not possible. It is always possible to obtain better results if treatment is individualized, and this will obviously be impossible to to study using standardized trials. However, the review by the World Health Organization is a helpful addition to the increasing body of research supporting the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Conditions where acupuncture has been proven effective through controlled trials
adverse reactions to radiation and/or chemotherapy
allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
biliary colic
depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
acute bacillary dysentery
primary dysmenorrhoea
acute epigastralgia (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
Conditions where only individual controlled trials have shown a benefit, but where acupuncture is worth trying because treatment by conventional and other therapies is difficult
chloasma
central serous choroidopathy
colour blindness
deafness
hypophrenia
irritable colon syndrome
neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury
chronic pulmonary heart disease
small airway obstruction
Conditions where 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)
diarrhoea in infants and young children
late stage viral encephalitis in children
progressive bulbar and pseudobulbar paralysis
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