Acupuncture is often also used as a treatment for the following conditions according to the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Neurological diseases and diseases of the musculoskeletal and support systems:
- Headache
- Migraines
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Facial palsy (early stage, most effective within 3 to 6 months)
- Paresia after apoplexia cerebri
- peripheral neuropathies
- Paresis after poliomyelitis (early stage, most effective within 6 months)
- Meniere's syndrome
- neurogenic bladder dysfunction
- Enuresis
- Intercostal neuralgia
- Cervicobrachial syndrome
- "Frozen shoulder"
- Tennis elbow
- Sciatica
- Lumboischialgia
- Osteoarthritis.
Gastrointestinal diseases:
- Cramps of the esophagus and stomach inlet
- Singultus
- Gastroptosis
- acute and chronic gastritis
- Hyperacidity of the stomach
- acute duodenal ulcer (pain treatment)
- acute duodenal ulcer (without complications)
- acute and chronic colitis
- acute bacterial dysentery
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Intestinal paralysis.
Diseases of the mouth
- Toothache
- Pain after tooth extraction
- Gingivitis
- Acute and chronic pharingitis.
Upper respiratory tract:
- acute sinusitis
- acute rhinitis
- flu-like infection
- acute tonsillitis
- Lower respiratory tract:
- acute bronchitis
- bronchial asthma (particularly effective in children and patients without other complicated diseases).
Eye diseases:
- Myopia (in children)
- Cataract (without complications)
- Macula degeneration
- Glaucoma
- Retinopathy