The World Health Organization reports that acupuncture is a proven treatment method for the following conditions:
- 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
 
- 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