We
hope this week finds you well rested and happy.
In trying to educate
you, our patients, we'd like to touch on what acupuncture is effective at
treating and how it can be a great alternative to Western medicine.
Here is the link to a lengthy report from the World Health Organization on the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating a wide range of ailments:
Here is the link to a lengthy report from the World Health Organization on the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating a wide range of ailments:
For convenience purposes I
wanted to just cut to the chase (that report is 81 pages long, for goodness'
sakes!) and list exactly what acupuncture is effective at treating below (this
list starts on page 23 of the report):
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 (including hay
fever)
Biliary colic
Depression (including depressive
neurosis and depression following
stroke)
Dysentery, acute bacillary
Dysmenorrhoea, primary
Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic
ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and
gastrospasm)
Facial pain (including
craniomandibular disorders)
Headache
Hypertension, essential
Hypotension, primary
Induction of labour
Knee pain
Leukopenia
Low back pain
Malposition of fetus, correction
of
Morning sickness
Nausea and vomiting
Neck pain
Pain in dentistry (including
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 (in acute
gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
Acne vulgaris
Alcohol dependence and
detoxification
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
Facial spasm
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
Labour pain
Lactation, deficiency
Male sexual dysfunction,
non-organic
Ménière 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
Radicular and pseudoradicular
pain syndrome
Raynaud syndrome, primary
Recurrent lower urinary-tract
infection
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Retention of urine, traumatic
Schizophrenia
Sialism, drug-induced
Sjögren 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)
Diarrhoea in infants and young
children
Encephalitis, viral, in
children, late stage
Paralysis, progressive
bulbar and pseudobulbar
Treatments
cost between $15-$35, you pay what you can afford. You can spend as little as
15 minutes or up to 2 hours to relax and rest-it's your choice how long you
stay. When you think about how invasive surgery is and how harsh medications
can be on your body, acupuncture is definitely a safe, non-invasive alternative
(providing your acupuncturist is a highly trained and educated--Deana has been
practicing for over 12 years).
When
you consider the cost, time, and convenience of acupuncture compared to
traditional Western medicine as well as the control you have over your own
health, acupuncture can be a great supplement to your current health care
regimen or a great alternative on its own. Help us spread the word!
To happiness and health!
To happiness and health!
-Daisy
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