We say that Acupuncture aims to help in a very wide range of conditions. We treat the whole body including physical, mental and emotional issues. People have been using Acupuncture for over 2000 years well before we started assigning labels to disease.
Research tends to indicate that pain from Muscular Skeletal issues, migraines, Female/Male fertility, and addictions are some of the most common requests.
In terms of assessing its effectiveness for specific conditions there have been hundreds of clinical trials in the western world and thousands of trails in the Far East.
The World Health Organisation ( WHO ) has published a list of conditions that in their opinion have been seen to respond to Acupuncture. You can Click here to download the full PDF document
The National Institute of Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) have made recommendations that Acupuncture is effective for pain relief along with other top level authorities have endorsed the use of Acupuncture.
The British Acupuncture Council has a list of research facts
www.acupuncture.org.uk/research-fact-sheets
If you would like to review some of the clinical trials that can be searched in google scholar then click here for acupuncure clinical trials
There will be over 85,000 references for you to review!