Acupuncture Treatments

Since each chronic disease is a far-from-equilibrium state, to cure a chronic disease would mean through a series of acupuncture treatments, by an accumulation of the stimulation effect of each treatment, to shift the body energetically back to one of the near-to-equilibrium states of health.

A longitudinal qualitative study, using a constant comparative method, informed by grounded theory. Eight professional acupuncturists in seven different settings publicized the study to their patients. We interviewed a maximum variation sample of 23 people with chronic illness, who were having acupuncture for the first time.

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The World Health Organization commissioned a review of the evidence basis for acupuncture treatment from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 2006, and offers the following conclusions:

Table 1: World Health Organization indications “for which acupuncture has been proved through clinical trials to be an effective treatment:” 

• Respiratory:allergic rhinitis
• Gastrointestinal: biliary colic, dysentery, epigastralgia (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm), morning sickness, nausea, and vomiting
• Pain: facial pain, headache, knee pain, low back pain, neck pain, dental and temporomandibular pain, periarthritis of the shoulder, postoperative pain, rheumatoid arthritis, sciatica, sprain, tennis elbow
• Gynecological/renal:colic, primary dysmenorrhoea, induction of labor, correction of malposition of fetus
• Cardiovascular:hypertension, hypotension, stroke Psychiatric: depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
• General:adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy, leukopenia

Table 2. WHO list of indications for which “a therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown, but further evidence is needed:”

• Respiratory: asthma, post-extubation in children, whooping cough
• Ear, nose, and throat, eye and mouth:eye pain, epistaxis (nose bleeds), herpes zoster, Meniere’s disease, sore throat, Sjogren syndrome
• Gastrointestinal:cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, gastrokinetic disturbance,
  hepatitis B carrier status, ulcerative colitis
• Neurolo-psychiatric:anxiety, Bell’s palsy, depression, facial spasm, neuralgia, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, dementia, schizophrenia, Tourette syndrome
• Pain: abdominal pain, cancer pain, earache, fibromyalgia, gouty arthritis, osteoarthritis, radicular pain, spinal pain, pain due to endoscopic examination, stiff neck, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, Tietze syndrome
• Skin: acne vulgaris, neurodermatitis, pruritus
• Gynecological/renal:female infertility, female urethral syndrome, hypoovarianism, labor pain, overactive bladder, polycystic ovary syndrome, premenstrual syndrome, urinary tract infections
• Male sexual dysfunction:prostatitis, , bladder infections, recurrent lower urinary tract infection, urolithiasis, retention of urine
• Cardiovascular:cardiac neurosis, hyperlipaemia, pain in thromboangiitis, Raynaud’s syndrome
• General:alcohol dependence, competition stress syndrome, craniocerebral injury, diabetes (non-insulin dependent), haemorrhagic fever, obesity,  insomnia, lactation deficiency, opium, cocaine and heroin, dependence, post-operative convalescence, tobacco dependence,

The California Acupuncture Board of the Department of Consumer Affairs offers the following advice regarding “conditions treated with acupuncture:”

How effective the treatment is, depends on the severity and nature of the condition being treated. Acupuncturists are trained to identify conditions that may require referral to a specialist, so it is important for you to provide detailed information about your condition so that important medical problems are not overlooked.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100209191441.htm

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