World Health Organization (WHO) recommends acupuncture for over 100 conditions including
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Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
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Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
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Biliary colic
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Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
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Dysentery, acute bacillary
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Dysmenorrhoea, primary
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Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
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Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
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Headache
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Hypertension, essential
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Hypotension, primary
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Induction of labour
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome
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Knee pain
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Leukopenia
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Low back pain
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Malposition of fetus, correction of
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Morning sickness
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Nausea and vomiting
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Neck pain
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Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
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Periarthritis of shoulder
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Postoperative pain
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Renal colic
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Rheumatoid arthritis
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Sciatica
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Sprain
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Stroke
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Tennis elbow
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Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
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Acne vulgaris
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Alcohol dependence and detoxification
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Bell’s palsy
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Bronchial asthma
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Cancer pain
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Cardiac neurosis
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Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
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Cholelithiasis
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Competition stress syndrome
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Craniocerebral injury, closed
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Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
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Earache
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Epidemic haemorrhagic fever
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Epistaxis, simple (without generalised or local disease)
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Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
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Female infertility
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Facial spasm
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Female urethral syndrome
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Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
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Gastrokinetic disturbance
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Gouty arthritis
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Hepatitis B virus carrier status
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Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpes virus 3)
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Hyperlipaemia
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Hypo-ovarianism
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Insomnia
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Labour pain
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Lactation, deficiency
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Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
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Ménière disease
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Neuralgia, post-herpetic
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Neurodermatitis
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Obesity
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Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
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Osteoarthritis
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Pain due to endoscopic examination
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Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans
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Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein–Leventhal syndrome)
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Postextubation in children
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Postoperative convalescence
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Premenstrual syndrome
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Prostatitis, chronic
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Pruritus
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Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome
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Raynaud syndrome, primary
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Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
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Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
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Retention of urine, traumatic
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Schizophrenia
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Sialism, drug-induced
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Sjögren syndrome
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Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
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Spine pain, acute
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Stiff neck
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Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
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Tietze syndrome
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Tobacco dependence
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Tourette syndrome
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Ulcerative colitis, chronic
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Urolithiasis
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Vascular dementia
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Whooping cough (pertussis)
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