There are many international scientific trials that have found when acupuncture is performed by a skilled practitioner, it is a safe and effective treatment for many health conditions, diseases and symptoms. The conditions below have strong to moderate evidence supporting the effectiveness of acupuncture as outlined in The Acupuncture Evidence Project: A Comparitive Literature Review (2017), a comprehensive review of the scientific literature supporting the effectiveness of acupuncture.
- Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
- Anxiety
- Asthma in adults
- Back or pelvic pain during pregnancy
- Cancer pain
- Cancer related fatigue
- Constipation
- Chronic lower back pain
- Depression (with anti-depressants)
- Dry eye
- Headache (tension type & chronic)
- Hypertension (with medication)
- Insomnia (including perimenopausal & postmenopausal)
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Knee osteoarthritis
- Lateral elbow pain (tennis elbow)
- Lower back pain (acute)
- Menopausal hot flushes
- Migraine prophylaxis
- Nausea & vomiting (post operative)
- Nausea & vomiting, chemotherapy induced (with ani-emetics)
- Neck pain
- Knee osteoarthritis
- Obesity
- Postoperative pain
- Post stroke insomnia
- Post stroke shoulder pain
- Post stroke spasicity
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Prostatitis pain/chronic pelvic pain syndrome
- Recovery after colorectal cancer resection
- Restless leg syndrome
- Schizophrenia (with antipsychotics)
- Sciatica
- Shoulder impingement syndrome, early stage (with exercise)
- Shoulder pain
- Smoking cessation (up to 3 months)
- Stroke (acute)
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Temporomandibular pain