What Can Acupuncture Help?

An acupuncturist may be consulted by people with specific symptoms or conditions, such as pain, anxiety, arthritis, eczema, sports injuries hayfever, asthma, migraine, high blood pressure, menstral disorders, intestinal problems or pregnancy management and delivery.

While extensive practice and research has shown that acupuncture is effective in helping people with such conditions as well as with many others, it does more that simply relieve symptoms. The aim of acupuncture is to treat the whole patient and to restore the balance between the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of the individual.

In traditional acupuncture, since all illness is considered the result of an imbalance of energy, treatment can benefit almost any ill person as long as the degenerative process in the tissues of the body is not too extensive.

Many people also have acupuncture as a preventitive treatment or because they feel unwell in themselves but are not `ill' in the Western sense.

General Treatments:

Upper Respiratory tract             Disorders of the Mouth

Acute sinusitis                 Toothache

Acute rhinitis                  Post-extraction pain

Common Cold                     Gingivitis

Acute tonsilitis                Acute and chronic pharyngitis



Respiratory system
     

Acute bronchitis

Bronchial asthma                        



Gastrointestinal system

Spasms of oseophagus and cardia

Hiccough

Acute and chronic gastritis

Gastric hyperacidity

Chronic duodenal ulcer (pain relief)

Acute duodenal ulcer (without complications)

Acute bacillary dysentery

Constipation

Diarrhoea

Paralytic ileus



Disorders of the Eye
   

Acute conjunctivitis

Central retinitis

Myopia (in children)

Cataract (without complications)



Neurological and musculoskeletal disorders

Headache                                Nocturnal enuresis

Migraine                                Intercostal neuralgia

Trigeminal neuralgia                    Cervicobrachial syndrome

Facial palsy (early stage)              `Frozen shoulder'

Pareses following a stroke              `Tennis elbow'

Peripheral neuropathies                 Sciatica

Sequelae of poliomyelitis (early stage) Low back pain

Meniere's disease                       Osteoarthritis

Neurogenic bladder dysfunction