According to The Acupuncture Evidence Project: A Comparative Literature Review,
Those conditions with strong evidence supporting the effectiveness of acupuncture are as follows:
Allergic rhinitis (perennial & seasonal)
- Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (with
anti-emetics) - Chronic low back pain
- Headache (tension-type and chronic)
- Knee osteoarthritis
- Migraine prophylaxis
- Postoperative nausea & vomiting
- Postoperative pain
Conditions with moderate – high evidence supporting the effectiveness of acupuncture
- Acute low back pain
- Acute stroke
- Ambulatory anaesthesia
- Anxiety
- Aromatase-inhibitor-induced arthralgia
- Asthma in adults
- Back or pelvic pain during pregnancy
- Cancer pain – Post-stroke spasticity
- Cancer-related fatigue
- Constipation
- Craniotomy anaesthesia
- Depression (with antidepressants)
- Restless leg syndrome
- Dry eye
- Hypertension (with medication)
- Insomnia
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Labour pain
- Lateral elbow pain
- Menopausal hot flushes
- Modulating sensory perception thresholds
- Neck pain
- Obesity
- Perimenopausal & postmenopausal insomnia
- Plantar heel pain
- Post-stroke insomnia
- Post-stroke shoulder pain
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Prostatitis pain/chronic pelvic pain syndrome
- Recovery after colorectal cancer resection
- Schizophrenia (with antipsychotics)
- Sciatica
- Shoulder impingement syndrome (early stage) (with
exercise) - Shoulder pain
- Smoking cessation (up to 3 months)
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Temporomandibular pain
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