Acupuncture has been proven to be an effective treatment:

• Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
  
• Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever) 
  
• Biliary colic 
  
• Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke) 
  
• Dysentery, acute bacillary 
  
• Dysmenorrhoea, primary 
  
• Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm) 
  
• Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders) 
  
• Headache 
  
• Hypertension, essential 
  
• Hypotension, primary 
  
• Induction of labour 
  
• Knee pain 
  
• Leukopenia 
  
• Low back pain 
  
• Malposition of fetus, correction of 
  
• Morning sickness 
  
• Nausea and vomiting 
  
• Neck pain 
  
• Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction) 
  
• Periarthritis of shoulder 
  
• Postoperative pain 
  
• Renal colic 
  
• Rheumatoid arthritis 
  
• Sciatica 
  
• Sprain 
  
• Stroke 
  
• Tennis elbow 

Acupuncture treatment is effective but further proof needed:

• Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm) 
  
• Acne vulgaris 
  
• Alcohol dependence and detoxification 
  
• Bell’s palsy 
  
• Bronchial asthma 
  
• Cancer pain 
  
• Cardiac neurosis (Da Costa's syndrome or soldier's heart)
  
• Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation 
  
• Cholelithiasis 
  
• Competition stress syndrome 
  
• Craniocerebral injury, closed 
  
• Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent 
  
• Earache 
  
• Epidemic haemorrhagic fever 
  
• Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease) 
  
• Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection 
  
• Female infertility 
  
• Facial spasm 
  
• Female urethral syndrome 
  
• Fibromyalgia and fasciitis 
  
• Gastrokinetic disturbance 
  
• Gouty arthritis 
  
• Hepatitis B virus carrier status 
  
• Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3) 
  
• Hyperlipaemia 
  
• Hypo-ovarianism 
  
• Insomnia 
  
• Labour pain 
  
• Lactation, deficiency 
  
• Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic 
  
• Ménière disease 
  
• Neuralgia, post-herpetic 
  
• Neurodermatitis 
  
• Obesity 
  
• Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence 
  
• Osteoarthritis 
  
• Pain due to endoscopic examination 
  
• Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans 
  
• 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 
  
• Retention of urine, traumatic 
  
• Schizophrenia 
  
• Sialism, drug-induced (excessive salivation)
  
• Sjögren syndrome (auto-immune disorder against moisture-producing glands)
  
• Sore throat (including tonsillitis) 
  
• Spine pain, acute 
  
• Stiff neck 
  
• Temporomandibular joint dysfunction 
  
• Tietze syndrome (swelling and inflammation of the costal cartillage)
  
• Tobacco dependence 
  
• Tourette syndrome 
  
• Ulcerative colitis, chronic 
  
• Urolithiasis 
  
• Vascular dementia 
  
• Whooping cough (pertussis)    

Acupuncture is worth trying because conventional treatment is difficult:

• Chloasma (tan or dark skin discolorations)
  
• Choroidopathy, central serous (non-inflammatory degeneration of choroid/uvea)
  
• Colour blindness 
  
• Deafness 
  
• Hypophrenia (subnormal mentality, feeble-mindedness; feelings of sadness without cause)
  
• Irritable colon syndrome 
  
• Neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury 
  
• Pulmonary heart disease, chronic 
  
• Small airway obstruction 

Acupuncture is worth trying with special monitoring devices:

• Breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  
• Coma 
  
• Convulsions in infants 
  
• Coronary heart disease (angina pectoris) 
  
• Diarrhoea in infants and young children 
  
• Encephalitis, viral, in children, late stage 
  
• Paralysis, progressive bulbar (degeneration of brainstem & CNs IX, X, XI) and pseudobulbar (damage to the brainstem)