Acupuncture

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The National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Center for Complimentary and alternative Medicine (NCCAM) states: (TCM) Traditional Chinese Medicine , acupuncture aims to restore and maintain health through the stimulation of specific points on the body.
According to the American Acupuncture Council “Acupuncture can be used to reduce pain, reduce inflammation, increase blood flow, increase range of motion, decrease the side effects of medication induced insomnia, promote relaxation and reduce muscle spasms. indications Include; joint pain, soft tissue pain,inflammation, parasthesia, post surgical pain releif and scar tissue pain. “
Acupuncture has been practiced in China and other Asian countries for thousands of years. The term “acupuncture” describes a family of procedures involving the stimulation of anatomical points on the body using a variety of techniques.
The acupuncture technique that has been most often studied scientifically involves penetrating the skin with thin, solid, STERILE metallic needles.The report from a Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture held at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1997 stated that acupuncture is being “widely” practiced—by thousands of physicians, dentists, acupuncturists, and other practitioners—for relief or prevention of pain and for various other health conditions.
An estimated over 3.1 million U.S. American Adults used Acpuncture in 1997. FDA requires that needles be sterile, nontoxic, and labeled for single use by qualified practitioners only. It is considered to be a safe and effective Treatment.
The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2003 released a report recently:
 
“Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials
The diseases or disorders for which acupuncture therapy has been tested in controlled clinical trials reported in the recent literature can be classified into four categories as shown below.
1. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved-through controlled trials-to be an Effective etreatment:
  • 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
 (Acute & Chronic)
  • Malposition of fetus (breech)
  • Correction of Morning sickness
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Neck pain
  • Pain in Dentistry (including dental pain, temporomandibular dysfunction)
  • Periarthritis of shoulder
  • Postoperative pain
  • Renal Colic
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Sciatica
  • Sprain
  • Stroke
  • Tennis elbow
2. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is 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
  • 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,
  • rimary
Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
  • Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
  • Retention of urine,
  • Traumatic
 Schizophrenia
  • Sialism, drug-induced
  • Sjögren syndrome
  • Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
  • Spine pain, acute
  • Stiff neck
  • Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
  • Tietze syndrome
  • Tobacco dependence
  • Tourette syndrome
  • Ulcerative colitis, chronic
  • Urolithiasis
  • Vascular dementia
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  • hooping cough (pertussis)
3. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which there are only individual controlled trials reporting some therapeutic effects, but for which acupuncture is worth trying because treatment by conventional and other therapies is difficult:
  • Chloasma
  • Choroidopathy,
  • Central serous
  • Colour blindness
  • Deafness
  • Hypophrenia
Irritable colon syndrome
  • Neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury
  • Pulmonary heart disease, chronic
  • Small airway obstruction
4. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture may be tried provided the practitioner has special modern medical knowledge and adequate monitoring equipment:
  • 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 and pseudobulbar
http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Js4926e/6.html
 Becky Castano LAc
beckycastano@gmail.com
832-812-2802

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