The World Health Organization has acknowledged Acupuncture as a medical discipline and this practice is actually widely established among healthcare treatments

Acupuncture has proven particularly indicated in case of:

• Treats respiratory diseases (sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma) and gastrointestinal diseases (gastritis, hiatal hernia, colitis, and constipation);
• Neurosis, anxiety and depression, many forms of insomnia and obesity (with no need for drugs or particular diets);
• Osteoarticular pathologies (such as lumbar radical pain, periarthritis, epicondylitis and mainly cervicalgia);
• Arthrosis (cervical, lumbar and hip arthrosis, etc..);
• Sexual functional diseases (impotence);
• Side effects due to chemotherapy treatments (such as vomiting, paresthesia, paresis, etc…);
• It is very effective in Obstetrics, not only during delivery, but mostly to reduce menstrual pains.

Pain treatment remains a major application: acupuncture achieves excellent results in the treatment of headaches and migraines, in that of neuralgia (trigeminal, intercostal, etc.) and in that of acute neuropathic pain (e.g., carpal tunnel syndrome).