What diseases can be treated by acupuncture?

  During the development of Chinese medicine, for a considerable period of time, acupuncture was the main means of treating diseases, and thus has been fully developed and accumulated rich experience. However, from the current clinical reality, the majority of patients have certain limitations in their understanding of acupuncture, believing that acupuncture is only effective for some painful or functional diseases, which is not conducive to giving full play to the great role of acupuncture. A brief description of the conditions for which acupuncture has been clinically proven to be effective is given to facilitate patients’ consultation.  It is well known that acupuncture is very effective for headache, low back pain, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, cervical spondylosis, drop pillow, eruption, neurasthenia, facial palsy, facial muscle spasm, trigeminal neuralgia, post-stroke sequelae, post-traumatic nerve function recovery and other diseases.  Acupuncture is also very effective for the following diseases: nasal congestion, runny nose, headache, decreased sense of smell due to rhinitis and sinusitis; cough and phlegm due to pharyngitis and bronchitis; stomach distension, stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, habitual constipation due to gastrointestinal dysfunction; abdominal pain due to chronic pelvic inflammation and endometriosis; dysmenorrhea; chloasma, irregular menstruation, premenstrual swelling, menopausal syndrome due to endocrine disorders; simple obesity. menopausal syndrome; simple obesity, etc.; postpartum urinary retention; tension urinary incontinence; urinary disorders due to prostatic hyperplasia, etc.; skin sores; acne; baldness; chronic urticaria; herpes zoster and posterior pain; tinnitus and deafness, etc.  In today’s highly developed drug therapy, acupuncture therapy is still widely respected and accepted for its simplicity of operation, low pain, high efficacy and non-toxic side effects.