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CONDITIONS WE TREAT There are no bounds to what Oriental medicine can treat; however, there are more effective methods of modern medicine to treat severe trauma and many life-threatening conditions.
What Can Oriental Medicine Treat?
The nature of Oriental Medicine allows it to treat a wide variety of conditions, including pain, headaches, digestive problems, menstrual cramps, sports and work-related injuries, among many others. However, it generally can be used as the treatment of choice for sprains and strains, allergies, poor digestion, menstrual problems, menopause, headaches, neck and back pain, fatigue, stress, and other minor and self-limiting illnesses. Oriental Medicine is also a wonderful adjunct for speeding recovery from major trauma, surgery, and strokes, treating the side effects of cancer chemotherapy, enhancing the effectiveness of alcohol and substance abuse recovery programs.
World Health Organization
A World Health Organization Interregional Seminar on Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Acupuncture Anesthesia was held in Beijing ( Peking ) in June 1979, attended by participants from twelve countries.
The World Health Organization Interregional Seminar drew up the following provisional list of diseases that lend themselves to acupuncture treatment. The list is based on clinical experience, and not necessarily on controlled clinical research: furthermore, the inclusion of specific diseases are not meant to indicate the extent of acupuncture's efficacy in treating them.
The following is a list of conditions which the World Health Organization determined may respond to acupuncture.
Upper Respiratory Tract
• Acute sinusitis
• Acute rhinitis
• Common Cold
• Acute tonsillitis
Respiratory System
• Acute bronchitis
• Bronchial asthma (most effective in children and in patients without complicating diseases)
Disorders of the Eye
• Acute conjunctivitis
• Central retinitis
• Myopia (in children)
• Cataract (without complications) Disorders of the Mouth
• Toothache, post-extraction pain
• Gingivitis
• Acute and chronic pharyngitis
Gastro-intestinal Disorders
• Spasms of esophagus and cardia
• Hiccough
• Gastroptosis
• Acute and chronic gastritis
• Gastric hyperacidity
• Chronic duodenal ulcer (pain relief)
• Acute duodenal ulcer (without complications)
• Acute and chronic colitis
• Acute bacillary dysentery
• Constipation
• Diarrhea
• Paralytic ileus
Neurological and Musculo-skeletal Disorders
• Headache and migraine
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Facial palsy (early stage, i.e., within three to six months)
• Pareses following a stroke
• Peripheral neuropathies
• Sequelae of poliomyelitis (early stage, i.e., within six months)
• Meniere's disease
• Neurogenic bladder dysfunction
• Nocturnal enuresis
• Intercostal neuralgia
• Cervicobrachial syndrome
• "Frozen shoulder," "tennis elbow"
• Sciatica
• Low back pain
• Osteoarthritis
The most commone conditions treated effectively by Acupuncture include:
chronic pain
• neck and back pain
• migraine headaches
acute injury-related pain
• sprains
• strains
gastrointestinal problems
• indigestion
• ulcers
• constipation
• diarrhea
cardiovascular conditions
• high and low blood pressure
genitourinary problems
• menstrual irregularity
• infertility
• impotence
muscle and nerve conditions
• paralysis
• deafness
addictive Behaviours
• substance abuse
• overeating
• drug dependence
• smoking
surgery
• anesthesia |
