Female infertility treated with Acupuncture

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"In 2003 the World Health Organization published a document called Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials. The objective was "to provide a review and analysis of controlled clinical trials of acupuncture therapy, as reported in the current literature, with a view to strengthening and promoting the appropriate use of acupuncture in health care systems throughout the world."

Section 3 of the publication is a discussion of "the diseases or disorders for which acupuncture therapy has been tested in controlled clinical trials reported in the recent literature." Below is a partial listing of these conditions. Conditions listed in blue have been treated at this clinic.

1. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved through controlled trials to be an effective treatment:

Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Allergic rhinitis / hay fever
Low back pain
Leukopenia
Depression (including depression following stroke)
Nausea and vomiting
Dysentery, acute bacillary
Morning sickness
Dysmenorrhoea, primary
Neck Pain
Epigastralgia, acute (acute/chronic gastritis, gastrospasm)Periarthritis of shoulder
Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)Postoperative pain
Headache
Rheumatoid arthritis
Hypertension, essential
Sciatica
Hypotension, primary
Sprain
Induction of labor
Stroke
Knee pain
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 (acute gastroenteritis / gastrointestinal spasm)
Labor Pain
Acne vulgaris
Lactation, deficiency
Alcohol dependence and detoxification
Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
Bell"s palsy
Meniere"s disease
Bronchial asthma
Neuralgia, post-herpatic
Cancer pain
Neurodermatitis
Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
Obesity
Cholelithiasis (gall stones
Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
Competition stress syndrome
Osteoarthritis
Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Earache
Postoperative convalescence
Epidemic hemorrhagic fever
Premenstrual syndrome
Female infertility
Prostatitis, chronic
Facial spasm
Raynaud syndrome, primary
Female urethral syndrome
Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
Gouty arthritis
Spine pain, acute
Hepatitis B virus carrier status
Stiff neck
Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3)
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ)
Hyperlipademia
Tobacco dependence
Hypo-ovarianism
Ulcerative colitis, chronic
Insomnia
Whooping cough (pertussis)"

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