Ailments most effectively treated with acupuncture

General uses of acupuncture

Although used for a variety of health problems, including addictions, pain relief, anesthesia, musculoskeletal problems, arthritis, asthma, hay fever, mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, migraines, nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, high blood pressure, digestive disorders, women's health, and also promoting health, acupuncture can also be used for nausea associated with general anesthesia and chemotherapy. In the United States acupuncture is perhaps most commonly used to relieve pain, including neck and lower back pain, post-surgical pain, and migraine headaches. In the United Kingdom, midwives have used it to turn breech babies. The World Health Organisation has identified over 40 conditions treatable with acupuncture. Studies have indicated that acupuncture may stimulate the production of endorphins, the body's own "morphine-like" painkillers. It may also trigger nerve "gate control", in which pressure messages reach the brain faster than do messages of pain. Although attempts at relating the meridians' pattern of energy pathways to electrical current in the body have been unscientific and inconclusive, some evidence exists for acupoints having a lower electrical resistance than nonacupuncture sites. In a Spanish study in 1992, radioactive tracers injected at acupoints seemed to travel along similar pathways to meridians, leading to theories of information transmission linked to neurochemicals rather than to the circulatory or lymphatic system. Completely safe, acupuncture has no known side effects.

Many common problems that can be treated with Acupuncture, include:

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