Conditions
Acupuncture and Chinese medicine can treat virtually any medical condition from the common cold to neurological conditions. It is most well known in this country for treating the following health conditions:
Some of the specific conditions recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) as being successfully treated by acupuncture and Chinese medicine are listed below in alphabetical order. In reality, we can successfully treat many more than those listed!
- Pain - whether acute or chronic, including all types of headaches, sports injuries, tendonitis, bursitis, arthritis, fibromyalgia, and all sorts of other aches and irritations.
- Stress Related Disorders - including panic attacks, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and insomnia.
- Fatigue and Auto-immune conditions - disorders characterized by "brain fog" and "burnout," including Epstein-Barr Virus, Adrenal Insufficiency, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
- Gynecological Problems - including PMS, menopause symptoms, irregular or painful menstrual cycles, ovarian cysts, and uterine fibroids.
- Those long-standing conditions in which the doctors just don't know or can't agree on a diagnosis.
Some of the specific conditions recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) as being successfully treated by acupuncture and Chinese medicine are listed below in alphabetical order. In reality, we can successfully treat many more than those listed!
If you can't find your diagnosis listed, give us a call
and we will tell you what our experience is with it.
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Abdominal pain (acute gastroenteritis or GI tract spasm)
Acne vulgaris Addiction & dependence (alcohol, cocaine, heroin,opiate, tobacco) Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever) Bell’s palsy Biliary colic Bronchial asthma Cancer pain & side effects of chemotherapy & radiation Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation (Gall bladder attack) Cholelithiasis (Gallstones) Closed Craniocerebral injury (Concussion) Dental Pain Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke) Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent Dysentery, acute bacillary Dysmenorrhoea, primary Earache Epidemic haemorrhagic fever Epigastric pain (peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm) Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders) Facial spasm Female infertility Female urethral syndrome Fibromyalgia and fasciitis Gastrokinetic disturbance Gout (Gouty Arthritis) Headache Hypertension (high blood pressure) Hypotension (low blood pressure) Hepatitis B virus carrier status Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3 Hyperlipaemia Hypo-ovarianism Insomnia Knee Pain Labor pain Labor Induction Lactation Induction Leukopenia Low back pain |
Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
Malposition of fetus, correction of Morning sickness Ménière disease Nausea and vomiting Neck pain Neuralgia, post-herpetic Neurodermatitis Nosebleeds (simple epistaxis) Obesity Osteoarthritis Pain due to endoscopic examination Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans Panic Attack (cardiac neurosis) Performance Anxiety (competitive stress syndrome) Periarthritis of shoulder Postoperative pain Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome) Postextubation in children Postoperative convalescence Premenstrual syndrome Prostatitis, chronic Pruritus Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome Raynaud syndrome, primary Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) Retention of urine, traumatic Renal colic Rheumatoid arthritis Schizophrenia Sciatica Sialism, drug-induced Sjögren syndrome Sore throat (including tonsillitis) Spine pain, acute Sprain & Strains Stiff neck Stroke (recovery & rehabilitation) Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ) Tennis elbow Tietze syndrome Tourette syndrome Ulcerative colitis, chronic Urolithiasis (kidney stones) Vascular dementia Whooping cough (pertussis) |
