It finds more over all its effectiveness that it is in a preventive situation, curative or complementary according to the case.
Below a non exhaustive list of the systems, and some ones their disordered states, on which the action is classically recognized:
Digestive system:
gastric ulcer, dyspepsia, pains in general, loss of appetite, anorexia,
intestinal hiccup, difficulty of swallowing, colitis,disorders, diarrhoea, constipation,
biliary distensions, haemorrhoids, disorders and of the liver, vomiting.
Respiratory system:
asthma, bronchitis,emphysema, laryngitis, sinusitis, rhinitis, cough,cold, influenza, dyspnea.
Circulatory system:
cold numbnesses, members, shivers, puffiness,oedema, hypertension, hypotension.
Genito-urinary system:
disorders of the prostate, cystitis, involuntary losses of urine, difficulty of urinating.
Genital system: vaginitis, disorders of the genital device
Reproductive system:
Pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum :
Complementary treatments and follow-ups to facilitate the common problems connected to the pregnancy, the childbirth and the postpartum including tiredness, breast feeding and the blues.
Auditive system:
earaches, certain deafnesses, buzz of ears, whistles, syndrome of Ménière.
Ocular system:
eye troubles, conjunctivitis, certain falls of the sight, dazzlings, cataracts, glaucoma.
Locomotor system:
Health: athletic performance, to help to minimize stiffnesses etc
Pathology: hemiplegia, certain paralyses, certain atrophies and muscular dystrophies.
Nervous system:
nervousness, anxiety, insomnia, stammering,nervous twitches, phobias, depressive state,general tiredness, obsessions, nightmares,bulimia, giddinesses, shakings, loss of balance.
Cutaneous system:
eczema, shingles, furoncles, dermatosis, psoriasis, acne, urticaria, foot of athlete.
Allergies:
seasonal allergies, hay fever, various allergies.
Treatment of the pain:
arthritis, rheumatism, stiff neck, cervical pains,muscular sciatic nerve, lumbago, pains, sportingheadaches, migraines, traumas, épicondylite, cramps, distorsion, bursite, neuralgia of the trigeminal nerve, facial neuralgia, various disorders of the knees.
Other conditions of health:
Acupuncture can bring a complementary appreciable help in the following cases:
diabetes, arteriosclerosis, cholesterol, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, weaken, mononucleosis, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, ataxia, myélite, fibromes and certain oncologic realities.
Problems of dependences:
can help at the time of the weaning of certain dependences(cigarette, drug, alcohol, obesity).
Health and wellness general:
Athletic performance, to increase vitality, calm intimes of great stress, to facilitate changes seasons
The previous remarks are corroborated with international by the following fact: WHO(2002), while being based on the recent literature, produced a list of diseases and dysfonctions for which acupuncture had been evaluated thanks to controlled clinical researches. This evaluation corresponds to the data of the NIH (1997) and confirms the data of Medical British Association (2000)
Here the list of the diseases, symptoms and conditions for which acupuncture appeared aneffective drug at the time of controlled clinical researches:
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Cephalgias and migraines
- Cervicalgies
- Biliary colic
- Nephretic colitis
- Release of work
- Depression
- Diarrhoea
- Facial pains, including the problems craniomandibulaires
- Surgical pains post
- Primary dysmenorrhoea
- Side-effects of radio and chemotherapy
- Distorsions
- Stomach pains (peptic ulcer, acute andchronic gastritis, gastric cramps)
- Primary hypertension
- Primary hypotension
- Leucopenia
- Lumbagos
- Morning nauseas
- Ostéo arthritis of the shoulder
- Ostéo arthritis of the knee and rheumaticpains
- Allergic rhinitis
- Sciatalgies
- Tendinitises foetal Version