World Health Organization statement 
In 2003, the World Health Organization's Department of Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy published a report on acupuncture that listed a series of diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been demonstrated as an effective treatment:[18] 

Acute bacillary dysentery 
Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy 
Allergic rhinitis 
Biliary colic 
Depression 
Essential hypertension 
Headache 
Induction of childbirth and correction of the malposition of fetus 
Inflammation of the tissues surrounding the shoulder 
Leukopenia 
Nausea and vomiting including morning sickness 
Pain in the epigastrium, face, neck, tennis elbow, lower back, knee, during dentistry and after operations 
Primary dysmenorrhea 
Primary hypotension 
Renal colic 
Rheumatoid arthritis 
Sciatica 
Sprains 
Strokes