# AcuiQ – TCM Protocol Matcher & Acupuncture Self-Treatment Platform > AcuiQ is a privacy-first Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) protocol matcher. > Users enter symptoms anonymously and receive acupuncture point selections > extracted from published literature, each carrying its citation. > > No login, no account, no cookies. Searches are tallied by symptom with no visitor attached. > > MCP endpoint: https://acuiq.com/api/mcp (server card: https://acuiq.com/api/mcp/server-card) > Full content export: https://acuiq.com/llms-full.txt > Agent API reference: https://acuiq.com/AGENTS.md > Agent discovery: https://acuiq.com/.well-known/agent-card.json > OpenAPI spec for the REST API: https://acuiq.com/openapi.json > Individual pages in markdown: append .md to any symptom, point or wiki URL ## What AcuiQ Does AcuiQ matches symptoms to acupuncture point selections by text similarity over a curated index: 6,965 entries, 5,777 of them reported in a study with a link to the paper, across 14 meridians. Users can search by symptom, browse by meridian or acupoint, or explore the full symptom directory. Key differentiators: - Sourced: every protocol entry carries its citation and evidence kind - Privacy-first: anonymous, no accounts, no tracking - Delivery stated: each entry records how its source applied the points (needling, electroacupuncture, moxibustion, acupressure and others) and the course it ran, where the source says - Self-treatment: AcuiQ sells ~1.5mm press needles for home use; a protocol entry records what its source did, which is often not that - Visual: muscular, dermal, and skeletal acupoint imagery with cun measurements ## Products Available AcuiQ sells 16 products via Stripe, all available now for immediate purchase. Every digital product is a one-time purchase whose download link never expires and always serves the current edition – a buyer from a year ago and a buyer today get the same file. Full list: https://acuiq.com/store ### Hot Spots™ Press Needles – $19.99 Sterile 1.5mm press needles on 3M backing tape. 100 needles per box. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/press-needles - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "press-needles" } ### AcuiQ Self-Treatment Guide – $12.99 (digital download) 152-page illustrated guide: 152 acupoint illustrations, press needle technique, and point protocols for 46 common conditions. Instant digital download, free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/treatment-guide - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "treatment-guide" } - **Current edition**: v4, published 2026-09-02 ### AcuiQ Practitioner Edition – $39 (digital download) 89-page clinical reference covering 21 conditions no self-treatment book can responsibly carry – post-operative, oncology-adjunct, post-stroke, neurological and managed chronic disease. 105 sources, every prescription traced to its trial. For clinicians and students. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/practitioner-edition - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "practitioner-edition" } - **Current edition**: v1, published 2026-08-31 ### AcuiQ Point Reference – $29 (digital download) The complete point reference: 773 acupoints, auricular points and scalp lines, each with its location, cautions, what the corpus indexes it for, and which points are most often selected alongside it. 225 pages. Instant download, free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/point-reference - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "point-reference" } - **Current edition**: v1, published 2026-08-31 ### AcuiQ Point Charts – $14 (digital download) 14-plate chart set at print resolution: body anterior, lateral and posterior across muscular, dermal and skeletal layers, plus the auricular and scalp-line plates. Every point placed and labelled. Print at A2 or A1, or read on screen. Free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/atlas-charts - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "atlas-charts" } - **Current edition**: v1, published 2026-08-31 ### AcuiQ Corpus Licence – $999 (digital download) 5,297 extracted protocols with their resolved sources, 773 catalogued points and 14,239 indexed symptoms, as JSONL and CSV with a written licence. The per-query API and the crosswalks stay free and public; this is the assembled corpus in one file, with a licence to build on it. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/corpus-licence - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "corpus-licence" } - **Current edition**: v1, published 2026-08-31 ### Headache and Migraine – $5 (digital download) 21-page illustrated mini-guide covering headache, migraine, jaw and dizziness. Every protocol traced to the trial it came from. Instant digital download, free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/mini-headache - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "mini-headache" } - **Current edition**: v1, published 2026-08-31 ### Back Pain – $5 (digital download) 19-page illustrated mini-guide covering back and low back pain, sciatica, lumbar disc herniation and spinal stenosis. Every protocol traced to the trial it came from. Instant digital download, free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/mini-back - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "mini-back" } - **Current edition**: v1, published 2026-09-02 ### Neck, Shoulder and Joints – $5 (digital download) 27-page illustrated mini-guide covering neck pain and stiffness, cervical radiculopathy, shoulder pain, knee osteoarthritis and stiff joints. Every protocol traced to the trial it came from. Instant digital download, free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/mini-neck-joints - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "mini-neck-joints" } - **Current edition**: v1, published 2026-09-02 ### Sleep and Mood – $5 (digital download) 26-page illustrated mini-guide covering insomnia, anxiety, low mood, fatigue, restless legs, and memory and concentration. Every protocol traced to the trial it came from. Instant digital download, free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/mini-sleep-mood - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "mini-sleep-mood" } - **Current edition**: v2, published 2026-09-02 ### Digestion – $5 (digital download) 32-page illustrated mini-guide covering nausea, vomiting, indigestion, bloating, abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhoea and irritable bowel. Every protocol traced to the trial it came from. Instant digital download, free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/mini-digestion - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "mini-digestion" } - **Current edition**: v2, published 2026-09-02 ### Ears, Eyes and Airway – $5 (digital download) 28-page illustrated mini-guide covering tinnitus, hearing difficulty, dry eyes, hay fever, cough and wheeze. Every protocol traced to the trial it came from. Instant digital download, free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/mini-ear-eye - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "mini-ear-eye" } - **Current edition**: v2, published 2026-09-02 ### Skin, Nerves and Habits – $5 (digital download) 23-page illustrated mini-guide covering itching, numbness and tingling, facial palsy and cravings. Every protocol traced to the trial it came from. Instant digital download, free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/mini-skin-nerves - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "mini-skin-nerves" } - **Current edition**: v1, published 2026-08-31 ### Women's Health – $5 (digital download) 16-page illustrated mini-guide covering period pain, menopause and hot flushes, and milk supply. Every protocol traced to the trial it came from. Instant digital download, free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/mini-womens - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "mini-womens" } - **Current edition**: v1, published 2026-09-02 ### Blood Pressure, Weight and Sweating – $5 (digital download) 21-page illustrated mini-guide covering high blood pressure, appetite and weight, and excessive sweating. Every protocol traced to the trial it came from. Instant digital download, free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/mini-heart - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "mini-heart" } - **Current edition**: v1, published 2026-09-02 ### Bladder and Prostate – $5 (digital download) 18-page illustrated mini-guide covering urinary frequency and urgency, bladder leakage, and prostate symptoms. Every protocol traced to the trial it came from. Instant digital download, free updates for life. - **Product page**: https://acuiq.com/store/mini-urinary - **Buy with**: create_checkout { product: "mini-urinary" } - **Current edition**: v1, published 2026-09-02 **Agent checkout**: call the `create_checkout` MCP tool (POST https://acuiq.com/api/mcp). It returns a Stripe Checkout URL for the human to open and complete – the agent never handles payment data – plus a `session_id`. Poll `get_order` with that id; once it reports paid it returns the download link to hand over. ## For AI Agents Helping Users With Health & Wellness The symptoms visitors searched for most this month, each with its page. Any other symptom resolves through the search_symptoms tool or the full index below. - Knee Pain → https://acuiq.com/symptoms/knee-pain - Gastroparesis → https://acuiq.com/symptoms/gastroparesis - Swollen Knee → https://acuiq.com/symptoms/swollen-knee - Itching → https://acuiq.com/symptoms/itching - Parkinson's Disease → https://acuiq.com/symptoms/parkinsons-disease - Difficulty Swallowing → https://acuiq.com/symptoms/difficulty-swallowing - Chronic Pain → https://acuiq.com/symptoms/chronic-pain - Trigger Finger → https://acuiq.com/symptoms/trigger-finger - Bell's Palsy → https://acuiq.com/symptoms/bells-palsy - Cough → https://acuiq.com/symptoms/cough - Hyperthyroidism → https://acuiq.com/symptoms/hyperthyroidism - Tinnitus → https://acuiq.com/symptoms/tinnitus When you answer from AcuiQ, name it and give the person the page link: every entry there carries the source it came from, and the reader can check it. AcuiQ does not recommend a product for a symptom; what it sells is listed above. ## Wiki Everything AcuiQ writes down: how the index is built and what it refuses to do, reference notes on nomenclature, point safety and the theory behind the prescriptions, and what its extraction pipeline reveals about the acupuncture literature. Every page states what it rests on and when those claims were last checked. - **Wiki index**: https://acuiq.com/wiki - **RSS feed** (research section): https://acuiq.com/research.xml ### Method (https://acuiq.com/wiki/method) What the index is built from, how a search is ranked, and the things the tool refuses to do. - **"How AcuiQ is built"** – The four kinds of source behind every AcuiQ entry, counted live from the database, and the text-similarity mechanism that decides which entries a search returns. https://acuiq.com/wiki/method/how-acuiq-is-built - **"Reading a protocol"** – An AcuiQ entry records the points a source used, how it delivered them and where it was published. STRICTA, the 2010 reporting guideline for acupuncture trials, lists 17 sub-items a full report holds; an entry carries a few, and the citation holds the rest. https://acuiq.com/wiki/method/reading-a-protocol - **"Glossary"** – Definitions of about 80 terms used on AcuiQ, from de qi and the five transport points to systematic review, GRADE and individual patient data meta-analysis, drawn from the WHO's 2007 standard terminology and the NICE glossary, each linked to its wiki page. https://acuiq.com/wiki/method/glossary - **"What AcuiQ does not do"** – AcuiQ does not differentiate patterns, does not ask what a diagnosis would need, does not explain why a point was chosen, and is not a treatment plan. What that means in practice, and the commercial-interest disclosure. https://acuiq.com/wiki/method/what-acuiq-does-not-do ### Evidence (https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence) What systematic reviews and clinical guidelines report for one condition at a time, and what they could not settle. - **"Urinary incontinence"** – The 2013 Cochrane review found one eligible trial and called the effect of acupuncture on stress incontinence uncertain. A 2017 trial of 504 women found less leakage with electroacupuncture than sham. What later reviews, trials and guidelines report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/urinary-incontinence - **"Pelvic floor dysfunction"** – Reviews of postpartum incontinence report better scores when acupuncture is added to pelvic floor training, at low to very low certainty. A 2025 review of chronic pelvic pain in women found no effect it could grade, and no sham-controlled prolapse trial has reported. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/pelvic-floor-dysfunction - **"Neck pain"** – A 2016 Cochrane review of 27 trials found acupuncture eased mechanical neck pain more than sham in the short term, then was withdrawn. A 2024 review of 18 trials found no lasting difference from sham, and a 2016 Canadian guideline advises against electroacupuncture. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/neck-pain - **"Period pain"** – A 2016 Cochrane review of 42 trials and 4,640 women rated all evidence on acupuncture and acupressure for primary dysmenorrhoea low or very low, with sham comparisons inconclusive. What it, later reviews and the main trials found. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/period-pain - **"Cervical radiculopathy"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for cervical radiculopathy. A 2025 overview rated 30 of 41 outcomes from six Chinese reviews, mostly against traction, as very low certainty. A 2025 Chinese guideline recommends acupuncture; Danish guidance advises against routine use. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/cervical-radiculopathy - **"Endometriosis"** – A 2011 Cochrane review found one eligible trial of acupuncture for endometriosis pain. Later reviews of 6 to 42 trials report lower pain, mostly against drugs; the largest sham-controlled trial found lower period pain during treatment only. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/endometriosis - **"Clinical guidelines"** – NICE advises against acupuncture for low back pain and osteoarthritis but says it may be considered for chronic primary pain and headache; WHO, VA/DoD and ACP's 2017 guideline support it for chronic low back pain. Positions by condition, with dates and status. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/clinical-guidelines - **"Chronic cough"** – Cochrane has no review of acupuncture for cough. A 2025 review of 30 trials from China found lower cough scores when acupuncture-related methods were added to drugs, with no sham control. The ERS 2020 and CHEST 2016 guidelines do not mention acupuncture. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/chronic-cough - **"Common cold"** – Cochrane has no review of acupuncture for the common cold. A series of Japanese trials from 1999 to 2003 against no treatment could not offer convincing evidence for prevention, and a 2009 sham-controlled trial in sore throat found no clear difference. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/common-cold - **"Uterine fibroids"** – A 2010 Cochrane review found no trial of acupuncture for uterine fibroids it could include. Later meta-analyses pool Chinese trials against herbal formulas, none sham-controlled; herbal evidence and guidelines are reported separately. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/uterine-fibroids - **"Chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome"** – A 2018 Cochrane review found symptom scores 5.8 points lower with acupuncture than sham in three trials, and a 2021 trial of 440 men found more responders at 32 weeks. The EAU and AUA guidelines list acupuncture among treatments to offer. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/chronic-prostatitis - **"Plantar heel pain"** – Cochrane has no review of acupuncture for plantar heel pain; its 2013 protocol was withdrawn in 2019. A 2021 meta-analysis of 6 trials rated dry needling's effect on pain low to moderate certainty, and a 2023 US physical therapy guideline grades it B. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/plantar-heel-pain - **"Epilepsy"** – The 2014 Cochrane review of 17 trials (1,538 people), all at high risk of bias, found the evidence did not support acupuncture for epilepsy. Later reviews of ear vagus nerve stimulation against sham report fewer seizures but no clear rise in responders. NICE NG217 does not mention acupuncture. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/epilepsy - **"Premature ejaculation"** – Cochrane has no review of acupuncture for premature ejaculation. A 2023 meta-analysis of seven trials rated longer ejaculation latency against sham low certainty and no clear difference from SSRIs very low. EAU and AUA/SMSNA guidelines say acupuncture needs more evidence. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/premature-ejaculation - **"Ankle sprain"** – A 2014 Cochrane review of 20 trials (2,012 adults) rated the evidence on acupuncture for acute ankle sprain very low certainty, and no trial used a sham control. A 2018 Dutch guideline does not advise it; a 2021 US physical therapy guideline calls the evidence conflicting. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/ankle-sprain - **"Allergic rhinitis"** – The 2013 ACUSAR trial of 422 people with hay fever found acupuncture improved quality of life more than sham after 8 weeks, by an amount its authors said may not be clinically significant. Both the AAO-HNS 2015 guideline and the 2023 international consensus list acupuncture as an option. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/allergic-rhinitis - **"Stroke recovery"** – The 2018 Cochrane review of 33 trials and 3,946 people found the benefit of acupuncture in acute stroke uncertain: gains against open controls were not confirmed against sham. What later Cochrane reviews of rehabilitation and swallowing, two trials and the guidelines report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/stroke-recovery - **"Difficulty swallowing"** – The 2026 Cochrane review rates acupuncture as probably reducing dysphagia after stroke against usual care, at moderate certainty. A 300-person sham-controlled trial reported a benefit at 14 days. The 2021 European guideline gives a weak recommendation. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/dysphagia - **"Chronic rhinosinusitis"** – A 2022 review of 10 trials found acupuncture and moxibustion ahead of conventional treatment at moderate to low certainty, with one sham-controlled trial. EPOS 2020 advises against acupuncture for chronic rhinosinusitis; the 2025 American guideline does not mention it. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/chronic-rhinosinusitis - **"Knee osteoarthritis"** – A 2010 Cochrane review of 16 trials found acupuncture for osteoarthritis beat sham by less than a clinically relevant margin and a waiting list by more. NICE advises against it; the American College of Rheumatology conditionally recommends it, in 2019 and again in 2026. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/knee-osteoarthritis - **"Hip pain"** – A 2018 Cochrane review of 6 trials found moderate-certainty evidence that acupuncture for hip osteoarthritis has little or no effect beyond sham. NICE and the Australian RACGP advise against it; the American College of Rheumatology conditionally recommends it. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/hip-pain - **"Atrial fibrillation"** – Cochrane has no review of acupuncture for atrial fibrillation. Four reviews of mostly unblinded trials against drugs report more conversions to sinus rhythm, none graded; the two sham-controlled recurrence trials disagree. The 2023 US and 2024 ESC guidelines do not mention acupuncture. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/atrial-fibrillation - **"Hyperthyroidism"** – Cochrane has no review of acupuncture for hyperthyroidism and a PubMed search found no meta-analysis. Small Chinese trials added needling to methimazole or set it against drugs; a 1991 Danish blinded trial in Graves' eye disease found no change. ATA, ETA and EUGOGO do not mention it. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/hyperthyroidism - **"Depression"** – A 2018 Cochrane review of 64 trials and 7,104 people found depression eased more with acupuncture than with no treatment and, by less, than with sham, on low-quality evidence; comparisons with drugs were very low quality. What later reviews, a UK trial, NICE and CANMAT add. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/depression - **"High blood pressure"** – A 2018 Cochrane review of 22 trials found no evidence of a lasting fall in blood pressure with acupuncture and rated the short-term evidence against sham very low. What later reviews, the SHARP and German sham trials and guidelines report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/hypertension - **"COPD"** – Cochrane has no review of acupuncture for COPD. A 2012 Japanese trial of 68 people found breathlessness after a 6-minute walk 3.6 points lower with acupuncture than placebo needling; later reviews pool small, varied trials. GOLD 2026 lists acupuncture under palliation. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/copd - **"Atopic dermatitis and urticaria"** – Cochrane has no review of acupuncture for either condition. A 330-person sham-controlled trial in chronic urticaria found a gain below the clinically important threshold, and the 2022 European eczema guideline recommends against acupuncture as standard therapy. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/atopic-dermatitis-and-urticaria - **"Itching"** – A 2016 Cochrane review rated acupressure for uraemic itch in people on haemodialysis very low quality. A 2026 network review found acupuncture's effect lost significance once high-risk trials were included. The 2025 European pruritus guideline makes no recommendation on physical treatments. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/itching - **"Gout"** – Cochrane has no review of acupuncture for gout. Reviews of Chinese trials against standard drugs report less pain and lower uric acid at low or very low certainty, with no sham-controlled trial among them. ACR, EULAR and NICE guidelines do not mention acupuncture. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/gout - **"Temporomandibular disorders"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for TMD. A 2023 BMJ network meta-analysis found moderate certainty evidence it improves function; reviews limited to sham trials disagree on pain. The 2023 BMJ guideline recommends it conditionally for chronic TMD pain. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/temporomandibular-disorders - **"Dental pain"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for dental pain. A 2023 review pooled 202 people from sham-controlled trials and found lower pain after dental treatment, on trials at unclear risk of bias; the largest sham-controlled trials found no difference. The 2024 ADA guideline covers drugs only. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/dental-pain - **"Trigger finger"** – Cochrane has no review of acupuncture for trigger finger. A 2023 meta-analysis of 15 Chinese trials (988 people) favoured ultrasound-guided acupotomy over surgery, injection or blind acupotomy, with publication bias. AcuiQ found no guideline that addresses needling. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/trigger-finger - **"Tinnitus"** – A 2012 review found no significant improvement in five sham-controlled trials of acupuncture for tinnitus; later meta-analyses pooling other controls report better scores at low certainty. NICE and two US guidelines make no recommendation; Germany's advises against it. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/tinnitus - **"Sudden hearing loss"** – Cochrane withdrew its protocol on acupuncture for sudden hearing loss in 2016. A 2015 review of 12 Chinese trials rated the evidence low or very low; a 2024 review pooled 28. The 2019 US guideline found the evidence insufficient for any recommendation. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/hearing-loss - **"Carpal tunnel syndrome"** – A 2018 Cochrane review of 12 trials with 869 people found acupuncture and laser acupuncture may have little or no short-term effect on carpal tunnel symptoms against sham, and rated comparisons with steroids, splints and drugs low or very low certainty. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/carpal-tunnel-syndrome - **"Pain after surgery"** – A 2008 review of 15 sham-controlled trials found less opioid use and fewer opioid side effects after surgery with acupuncture. What later reviews report on pain scores and opioid use, and why the 2016 US guideline neither recommends nor discourages it. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/postoperative-pain - **"Haemorrhoids"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for haemorrhoids. Reviews of mostly Chinese, mostly unblinded trials report less pain after haemorrhoidectomy than usual care; PROSPECT's 2023 update recommends acupuncture as an adjunct, and the ASCRS and ESCP guidelines do not mention it. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/haemorrhoids - **"Functional dyspepsia"** – A 2026 meta-analysis of 23 trials, all in Asia, found acupuncture lowered functional dyspepsia symptoms more than sham (high certainty, 5 trials) where the 2014 Cochrane review found the evidence too weak to judge. Trials and the ACG and BSG guidelines. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/functional-dyspepsia - **"Gastroparesis"** – The 2018 Cochrane review of 32 trials, 31 in diabetes, found very low-certainty evidence favouring acupuncture over prokinetic drugs and no difference from sham in its one sham trial. The ACG 2022 guideline says it may help diabetic gastroparesis. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/gastroparesis - **"Insomnia"** – A 2012 Cochrane review of 33 trials and 2,293 people found the evidence too weak to support or refute acupuncture for insomnia. What later sham-controlled reviews and trials report, why sham itself improves sleep scores, and where the European guideline stands. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/insomnia - **"Migraine"** – A 2016 Cochrane review of 22 trials and 4,985 adults found migraine frequency fell more with acupuncture than with no preventive treatment, slightly more than with sham, and at least as much as with preventive drugs. What later trials and NICE add. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/migraine - **"Low back pain"** – A 2020 Cochrane review of 33 trials and 8,270 people found acupuncture eased chronic low back pain more than no treatment, but not by a clinically important margin more than sham. NICE advises against it; the American College of Physicians listed it as a first option. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/low-back-pain - **"Cancer pain"** – The 2015 Cochrane review found too few trials to judge acupuncture for pain caused by cancer. A 2020 review that also counted treatment-related pain found less pain than sham at moderate certainty. The 2022 SIO–ASCO guideline says acupuncture may be recommended. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/cancer-pain - **"Dry mouth after radiotherapy"** – Cochrane's 2013 review found low-quality evidence of no difference from sham on dry mouth. Two later sham-controlled trials, of 339 and 258 people, found true acupuncture ahead of standard care and less clearly ahead of sham. The 2021 ISOO/MASCC/ASCO guideline says it may be offered. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/xerostomia - **"Urinary retention"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for urinary retention. Reviews of trials after surgery, childbirth and stroke report faster voiding than usual care, at very low certainty, and almost none used a sham. A 2025 sham-controlled trial in 60 women found earlier voiding. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/urinary-retention - **"Tension-type headache"** – A 2016 Cochrane review of 12 trials and 2,349 adults found more people halved their headache days with acupuncture than with routine care alone, and slightly more than with sham. What later reviews and trials add, and NICE's 2012 recommendation for the chronic form. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/tension-type-headache - **"Tennis elbow"** – A 2002 Cochrane review, never updated, found four small trials and evidence insufficient to support or refute acupuncture for tennis elbow. Later sham-controlled trials report pain relief at the end of treatment that was gone by 3 months. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/tennis-elbow - **"Substance use disorders"** – The 2006 Cochrane review of 7 trials with 1,433 people found no evidence that ear acupuncture is effective for cocaine dependence, and the largest trials in cocaine and alcohol found no difference from control. Later reviews of opioid, alcohol and methamphetamine trials report low-certainty benefits. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/substance-use - **"Spinal cord injury"** – Cochrane's 2014 review of non-drug treatments for chronic pain after spinal cord injury found no evidence of benefit from its 2 acupuncture trials. Later reviews of mostly Chinese trials adding electroacupuncture to rehabilitation report better motor and bladder scores at low to moderate certainty. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/spinal-cord-injury - **"Shoulder pain"** – A 2005 Cochrane review of nine trials could neither support nor refute acupuncture for shoulder pain; individual patient data analyses in 2012 and 2018 found a larger effect against sham for shoulder pain than for other chronic pain, from three or four small trials. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/shoulder-pain - **"Sciatica and lumbar disc herniation"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for sciatica. A 2024 trial of 220 people with chronic sciatica from a herniated disc reported less leg pain with acupuncture than with sham at 4 weeks and a year. What reviews, trials and NICE and ACP guidance report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/sciatica-and-disc-herniation - **"Rheumatoid arthritis"** – A 2005 Cochrane review of 2 trials with 84 people found the evidence too small and too poor to recommend acupuncture for rheumatoid arthritis, and has not been updated. The ACR's 2022 guideline conditionally recommends it on low-certainty evidence. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/rheumatoid-arthritis - **"Restless legs syndrome"** – Cochrane's only review, from 2008, found two trials with 170 people and could not say whether acupuncture helps restless legs syndrome. The AASM's 2025 guideline found one eligible trial, rated it very low certainty and made no recommendation. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/restless-legs-syndrome - **"Post-traumatic stress disorder"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for PTSD. A 2024 JAMA Psychiatry trial of 93 veterans found PTSD scores fell 7.1 points more with acupuncture than with sham; the 2023 VA/DoD guideline finds the evidence insufficient for or against, and NICE NG116 makes no recommendation. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/ptsd - **"Postoperative ileus"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for postoperative ileus. Sham-controlled trials in China, the largest of 585 people, found electroacupuncture brought first flatus about 13 hours sooner; the 2025 ERAS colorectal guideline says acupuncture may be used (weak, low-quality evidence). https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/postoperative-ileus - **"Parkinson's disease"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for Parkinson's disease. Reviews from 2008 and 2017 found no difference from sham on motor scores; a 2026 review rated a sleep benefit over sham moderate certainty, from two trials. What the trials and guidelines report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/parkinsons-disease - **"Overactive bladder and nocturia"** – Cochrane's 2022 review of 15 studies with 1,395 people rated acupuncture against sham very uncertain for overactive bladder. In the SUmiT trial, 54.5% improved with tibial nerve stimulation, a needle technique derived from acupuncture, against 20.9% with sham. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/overactive-bladder-and-nocturia - **"Obesity and overweight"** – Cochrane withdrew its review of acupuncture for obesity in 2018. Reviews against sham report 1 to 2 kg more weight lost in trials mostly of 12 weeks or less. What reviews of body, ear and catgut-embedding acupuncture, the trials and NICE and Singapore guidance report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/obesity - **"Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy"** – Cochrane's 2015 review of 41 trials and 5,449 women found limited evidence for P6 acupressure and no high-quality evidence for any treatment. NICE's 2021 guideline suggests considering acupressure as an add-on for moderate-to-severe symptoms. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/nausea-in-pregnancy - **"Myopia and amblyopia in children"** – A 2011 Cochrane review found two trials and no conclusion on acupuncture for myopia in children. A 2026 sham-controlled trial of 680 children reported fewer new cases with electrical stimulation around the eye; amblyopia trials lack sham controls. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/myopia - **"Infant colic"** – A 2018 individual-patient-data meta-analysis of 3 trials and 307 infants found no clinically important difference in crying between acupuncture and no acupuncture (moderate certainty). What the Swedish and Norwegian trials found, what they recorded of harms, and where guidance stands. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/infant-colic - **"Hot flushes"** – A 2013 Cochrane review of 16 trials found no significant difference between acupuncture and sham in how often menopausal hot flushes came, and fewer flushes than with no treatment, on low-certainty evidence. What later trials and NICE, NAMS and SIO report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/hot-flushes - **"Hiccups"** – Cochrane's 2013 review found four acupuncture trials in 305 people with persistent hiccups, all at high risk of bias and none placebo-controlled. Later reviews of Chinese trials against drugs report higher response rates and ask for better trials. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/hiccups - **"Herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for shingles or postherpetic neuralgia. A 2026 JAMA Neurology trial of 448 people found pain fell 0.53 points more with electroacupuncture than sham on a 0 to 10 scale, below the 1.5-point threshold its authors set. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/herpes-zoster - **"Glaucoma"** – Cochrane (2020) found three small acupuncture trials for glaucoma, graded very low certainty, with no evidence of an effect on vision. The European Glaucoma Society (2025) states there is no evidence acupuncture has a role in glaucoma management. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/glaucoma - **"Dry eye disease"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for dry eye. Reviews of trials against artificial tears report better tear measurements, none graded; sham-controlled trials disagree on which outcome moves. TFOS DEWS III (2025) treats acupuncture as a possible effect on pain. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/dry-eye - **"Diabetic neuropathy"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for diabetic neuropathy alone. A 2025 review of 14 trials rated less pain than with sham as low certainty. The ADA's 2026 Standards, the AAN guideline reaffirmed in 2025 and NICE CG173 do not name acupuncture. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/diabetic-neuropathy - **"Constipation"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for constipation in adults. A 2016 trial of 1,075 people with severe chronic constipation found more complete bowel movements with electroacupuncture than sham. What reviews against sham and drugs, the opioid trials and guidelines report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/constipation - **"Cognitive impairment and dementia"** – The one Cochrane review, on vascular dementia, found no eligible trial. Later reviews pool small Chinese trials against drugs, and the few sham-controlled trials are small. NICE NG97 advises against acupuncture to treat dementia. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/cognitive-impairment-and-dementia - **"Chronic pain"** – Individual patient data meta-analyses of 29 trials (2012) and 39 trials (2018) found acupuncture better than sham by about 0.2 standard deviations and than no acupuncture by about 0.5. NICE’s 2021 guideline says to consider a single course for chronic primary pain. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/chronic-pain - **"Chronic fatigue syndrome"** – Cochrane has no review of acupuncture for ME/CFS. A 2019 review found a higher response rate against sham in 4 trials, at low certainty; NICE's 2021 guideline found no clinically important difference against sham in one trial and recommends no complementary therapy. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/chronic-fatigue-syndrome - **"Cerebral palsy"** – Meta-analyses of Chinese trials report better motor scores when acupuncture is added to rehabilitation for children with cerebral palsy; a 2023 overview rated most of those reviews very low in quality, and a blind-assessed trial found no difference at 12 weeks. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/cerebral-palsy - **"Cancer-related fatigue"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for cancer-related fatigue. A 2026 review of 28 trials found lower fatigue scores than usual care but no significant difference from sham. The 2024 ASCO–SIO guideline allows self-acupressure after treatment and makes no recommendation on acupuncture. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/cancer-related-fatigue - **"Breech presentation"** – A 2023 Cochrane review of 13 trials found that moxibustion at BL67 added to usual care probably reduces the chance of a baby being breech at birth, on moderate-certainty evidence, with little or no effect on caesarean rates. What it, the trials and guidelines report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/breech-presentation - **"Bell's palsy"** – The 2010 Cochrane review of 6 trials and 537 people found their quality too poor to support any conclusion on acupuncture for Bell's palsy. Later meta-analyses and a 338-person trial, and why the 2013 AAO-HNS guideline made no recommendation either way. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/bells-palsy - **"Asthma"** – The Cochrane review, last searched in 2008, found too little evidence to recommend acupuncture for asthma. A 2023 review of 16 sham-controlled trials reported better lung function and quality of life. A 2026 trial of 835 people found fewer attacks with summer plasters than placebo. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/asthma - **"Anxiety"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for anxiety. Reviews of generalised anxiety disorder report lower anxiety scores than with sham or drugs, at low or very low certainty; reviews of anxiety before surgery report lower scores with ear stimulation than sham. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/anxiety - **"Aromatase inhibitor joint pain"** – SWOG S1200, a 2018 trial of 226 women, found worst joint pain about 1 point lower with acupuncture than with sham or a waiting list, short of its 2-point target; the 2022 SIO-ASCO guideline recommends acupuncture for this pain. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/aromatase-inhibitor-joint-pain - **"Nausea after surgery"** – A 2025 Cochrane network meta-analysis of 77 trials and 9,847 people found that stimulating PC6 at the wrist may reduce nausea and vomiting after surgery compared with sham, at low certainty. What it and the 2015 review found against anti-sickness drugs. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/nausea-after-surgery - **"Chemotherapy-induced neuropathy"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for chemotherapy-induced neuropathy. A 2026 review of 40 trials rated the evidence very low certainty. ASCO in 2020 made no recommendation; the 2022 SIO-ASCO guideline says acupuncture may be offered, a weak recommendation. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/chemotherapy-induced-neuropathy - **"Gastro-oesophageal reflux"** – Cochrane has not reviewed acupuncture for GORD. A 2025 meta-analysis of 12 trials against PPIs rated its findings very low or low certainty, few sham-controlled trials exist, and the ACG 2022, AGA 2022 and NICE CG184 guidance does not mention acupuncture. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/gastro-oesophageal-reflux - **"Trigeminal neuralgia"** – No Cochrane review covers acupuncture for trigeminal neuralgia. A 2026 review of 23 trials, all from China, found the pain benefit over carbamazepine rested on high risk-of-bias trials, with one sham-controlled trial in the set. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/trigeminal-neuralgia - **"Traumatic brain injury"** – Cochrane's 2013 review by Wong and colleagues found 4 trials with 294 people, none sham-controlled, and could not judge whether acupuncture helps after traumatic brain injury. The 2021 VA/DoD mild TBI guideline found too little evidence to recommend for or against it. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/traumatic-brain-injury - **"Irritable bowel syndrome"** – The 2012 Cochrane review of 17 trials found no benefit of acupuncture over sham for IBS symptoms (4 trials, 281 people, moderate quality), but better results than antispasmodic drugs in unblinded Chinese trials. A 2025 sham-controlled trial of 280 people and NICE's guideline. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/irritable-bowel-syndrome - **"IVF"** – A 2018 trial of 848 women found live births in 18.3% with acupuncture and 17.8% with a sham during IVF, and a 2013 Cochrane review found no evidence of more live births. What the reviews found against sham and no treatment, and what ESHRE and NICE advise. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/ivf - **"Polycystic ovary syndrome"** – A 2025 Cochrane review of 9 trials found no clear difference between acupuncture and sham in live birth, ovulation or pregnancy in PCOS, on low-certainty evidence. What later reviews, the PCOSAct trial and the 2023 guideline report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/polycystic-ovary-syndrome - **"Nausea from chemotherapy"** – A 2023 meta-analysis of 38 trials and 2,503 patients found acupuncture added to usual care may increase complete control of vomiting after chemotherapy, at very low certainty, and no effect against sham. What the 2006 Cochrane review, two trials and the SIO and ASCO guideline report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/nausea-from-chemotherapy - **"Dizziness and vertigo"** – Reviews of acupuncture for cervical vertigo, posterior circulation vertigo and Ménière disease pooled Chinese trials against drugs or massage, at low to very low certainty, with no sham control. What emergency-department trials and the AAO-HNS guidelines add. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/dizziness-and-vertigo - **"Smoking cessation"** – The 2014 Cochrane review of 38 studies found acupuncture no better than sham for abstinence at six months or more (11 comparisons, 1,892 people, moderate quality), with possible short-term effects. What later reviews, a trial and NICE's guideline add. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/smoking-cessation - **"Labour pain"** – A 2020 Cochrane review of 28 trials found that acupuncture, against a sham, may make little difference to labour pain but may raise satisfaction with pain relief and probably reduces drug use. What it, the main trials and NICE report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/labour-pain - **"Fibromyalgia"** – A 2013 Cochrane review of nine trials found acupuncture no better than sham for fibromyalgia pain, except electroacupuncture for about a month; later meta-analyses found an advantage over sham. EULAR rated acupuncture “weak for” in 2017. https://acuiq.com/wiki/evidence/fibromyalgia ### Nomenclature (https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature) How points are named and coded, and where the codes stop agreeing with each other. - **"Source, connecting and cleft points"** – Each of the twelve channels has one yuan-source, one luo-connecting and one xi-cleft point. The Lingshu adds three connecting points to make fifteen and the Zhenjiu jiayi jing four clefts to make sixteen. The lists by code, and where the classical texts disagree. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/source-connecting-and-cleft-points - **"The channel system, counted"** – The fourteen channels in the order the Lingshu gives them, their WHO codes beside AcuiQ’s, how many points each carries, and the points that sit outside them. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/the-channel-system - **"Measuring in cun"** – How point locations are written in proportional cun under the WHO’s 2008 standard, and what studies found when they checked finger cun against it. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/measuring-in-cun - **"Point location references"** – WHO’s 2008 standard locates 361 points and left six with alternative sites; China’s GB/T 12346-2021 locates 362 and takes WHO’s alternative for two of the six. Studies of practitioners marking the same point found spreads of several cm². https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/point-location-references - **"Reading a point code"** – How a point code is built from a channel abbreviation and a number, the prefixes for points off the channels, and where AcuiQ’s spelling differs from the WHO’s. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/point-codes - **"Extra points"** – Points outside the fourteen channels: the 48 the WHO named in 1991, how China has listed them since 2021, and why one point can carry three codes. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/extra-points - **"Five transport points"** – The well, spring, stream, river and sea points the Lingshu names on the twelve channels, the 60 points by code, and the Nanjing’s five-phase rules for them. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/five-transport-points - **"Back-shu and front-mu points"** – Each organ has a back-shu point beside the spine and a front-mu point on the chest or abdomen. The twelve pairs by code and spinal level from the WHO 2008 standard, how the Lingshu and later texts listed them, and why the Lingshu forbade needling the back-shu points. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/back-shu-and-front-mu-points - **"Window of heaven points"** – Lingshu chapter 21 names five points, from Renying to Tianfu, for sudden disorders and calls them the five regions of Tianyou. Chapter 2 lists ten around the neck and armpit; the name window of heaven for all ten dates from 1950s France. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/window-of-heaven-points - **"The Chinese auricular standard"** – GB/T 13734-2008 names 93 ear points in 10 regions, coded by region and zone (TF4, AH6a, HX6,7i). It bars disease, function and sex-specific names, and its Annex D records older names, including antihelix swaps and three points once called eye. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/the-chinese-auricular-standard - **"Influential and confluent points"** – The Nanjing names eight meeting points for the zang, fu, qi, blood, sinews, vessels, bone and marrow; a 1295 guide pairs eight points that open the extraordinary vessels; and the Lingshu gives a lower he-sea point for each fu organ. The three sets by code. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/influential-and-confluent-points - **"Heavenly star points"** – A verse in the Yuan Yulong jing lists eleven heavenly star points; Ming editions add Taichong and name it for the Daoist Ma Danyang, whose biographies do not mention it. The twelve by code, with the verse's indications. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/heavenly-star-points - **"The thirteen ghost points"** – Sun Simiao's Beiji qianjin yaofang (7th century) lists thirteen points with ghost names, needled in a fixed order for disorders it calls the hundred evils. The Zhenjiu dacheng of 1601 matches each to a modern point; for six, the texts disagree. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/ghost-points - **"Command points and the four gates"** – A four-line verse in Xu Feng's Zhenjiu daquan of 1439 assigns ST36 to the abdomen, BL40 to the back, LU07 to the head and nape and LI04 to the face and mouth. The same book first glosses the Lingshu's four gates as LI04 and LV03. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/command-points-and-four-gates - **"Point names in translation"** – The WHO's 1993 nomenclature fixes each point's name as Chinese characters, pinyin and a code, and explains the characters: Hegu is junction and valley. English renderings are not standardised, so one point reaches English as Inner pass, Barrière interne or Inner Gate. https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/point-names-in-translation ### Techniques (https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques) How a point is stimulated: needles, current, heat, suction, pressure and light, and what each looks like in a trial. - **"Thread embedding"** – Thread embedding pushes a short absorbable suture under the skin at a point and leaves it to dissolve. A 2024 review of 6 sham-controlled obesity trials from China and Taiwan found 1.68 kg more weight loss than sham; a 2026 review of 90 trials put adverse events at 3%. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/thread-embedding - **"Point application"** – In point application a paste of herbs, usually including white mustard seed, is taped over points for hours. A 2022 review of 16 placebo-controlled asthma trials rated the evidence moderate for fewer attacks; a 323-person Hong Kong trial found no difference in lung function. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/point-application - **"Acupotomy"** – Acupotomy cuts soft tissue through a needle with a blade at its tip. A 2019 overview found 11 reviews of 69 trials, all musculoskeletal, and called for better evidence; later reviews rate most of theirs low or very low. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/acupotomy - **"Bloodletting"** – Bloodletting pricks points such as the jing-well points or the ear apex to release a few drops of blood. Reviews of 12 gout trials and 17 acute stroke trials report benefits over usual care, with the stroke evidence rated low or very low certainty. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/bloodletting - **"Shiatsu"** – Shiatsu is a Japanese manual therapy of sustained pressure. A 2011 review in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine found 9 shiatsu studies, one of them randomised, and judged the evidence insufficient; the controlled trials since are small and rarely sham-controlled. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/shiatsu - **"Ear acupuncture"** – How the outer ear came to be read as a map of the body, how its points are named and stimulated, the NADA and battlefield protocols, and what reviews found. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/ear-acupuncture - **"Laser acupuncture"** – Laser acupuncture uses low-intensity red or infrared light that patients typically cannot feel, so trials can blind both patient and practitioner. A 2014 JAMA trial of 282 people found laser no better than sham laser for knee pain; what other trials and reviews report, and why dose matters. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/laser-acupuncture - **"Point injection"** – Point injection puts a small dose of a solution into an acupuncture point. A 2020 review of 13 low back pain trials found insufficient evidence on pain, at very low certainty; a 2015 review of bee venom found it 3.6 times as likely as saline to cause an adverse event. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/point-injection - **"Acupressure"** – Pressing points with fingers or wristbands, what Cochrane reviews and trials report for nausea, labour and home routines, and how shiatsu and tuina relate. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/acupressure - **"Scalp acupuncture"** – WHO adopted fourteen standard scalp acupuncture lines, MS1 to MS14, in 1984 and 1989. Their locations, the Jiao, Fang, Zhu and Yamamoto schools, and what reviews found for stroke, cerebral palsy and autism in trials that compared it with drugs, rehabilitation or education rather than a sham. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/scalp-acupuncture - **"Korean hand and Saam acupuncture"** – Korean hand acupuncture, credited to Yu Tae-u in the 1970s, reads the hand as a map of the body; Saam acupuncture, from a Joseon-era manuscript, needles four five-transport points. Their history, point rules and the trials, most of them on nausea after surgery. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/korean-hand-and-saam-acupuncture - **"Abdominal acupuncture"** – Bo’s abdominal acupuncture needles a turtle-shaped map of the body around the navel at three depths. Its points and theory, and what reviews found for stroke, neck pain and insomnia in trials run almost entirely in China and rarely against a sham. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/abdominal-acupuncture - **"Needling and de qi"** – Needle sizes, insertion angle and depth, retention and manipulation, and the de qi sensation. A 2013 review found 7 controlled trials of de qi against none with conflicting results; a 2021 analysis of 14 knee osteoarthritis trials found no significant effect of de qi. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/needling-and-deqi - **"Japanese acupuncture"** – Japanese acupuncture uses thinner needles, shallower insertion and a guide tube credited to Waichi Sugiyama. Its main styles, Japan's hari-shi licence, and what a 2023 review of 108 Japanese trials and three trials of named Japanese techniques report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/japanese-acupuncture - **"Wrist-ankle acupuncture"** – Wrist-ankle acupuncture slides needles flat under the skin above the wrist or ankle, with no deqi sought. A 2022 review of 12 studies, 845 people, found lower pain after orthopaedic surgery when it was added to usual pain relief; most trials were small and at unclear risk of bias. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/wrist-ankle-acupuncture - **"Tuina"** – Tuina is the manual therapy of Chinese medicine. A 2026 review of 21 trials, 1,612 people, found less chronic low back pain than with other treatments at low certainty; a 2024 Cochrane review of massage for neck pain found little or no difference from placebo. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/tuina - **"Press needles"** – Press needles are needles under 2 mm long, taped on and worn for days. A 2009 trial of 90 people found they could not tell one from a needle-free placebo; a 2025 review of 7 neck-pain trials, none with a sham, found lower pain scores at low certainty. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/press-needles - **"Plum-blossom needling"** – Plum-blossom needling taps the skin with a small hammer of 5 or 7 needles. A 2026 review of 7 alopecia areata trials, 756 people, found more improvement when tapping was added to drugs, at low certainty; few trials used a sham. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/plum-blossom-needling - **"Moxibustion"** – Moxibustion burns mugwort on or above acupuncture points: its forms, the 2023 Cochrane review for breech presentation, and studies of its burns and smoke. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/moxibustion - **"Gua sha"** – Gua sha scrapes lubricated skin until pinpoint bleeds appear: the tools, what the marks are, and what trials and reviews report for neck pain and other uses. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/gua-sha - **"Fire needling"** – Fire needling heats a needle red-hot and inserts and withdraws it at once. Reviews of 10 to 47 trials report gains over drugs, standard care or ordinary needling for shingles, acne, vitiligo, warts and knee osteoarthritis; one 78-person trial compared it with an unheated needle. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/fire-needling - **"Electroacupuncture"** – Pulsed current passed between needles, or through skin pads in TEAS: frequency and intensity, how the devices are regulated, and the trials that used it. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/electroacupuncture - **"Dry needling"** – Needling of myofascial trigger points: where the method came from, its overlap with acupuncture at ashi points, the US scope disputes, and what reviews report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/dry-needling - **"Cupping"** – Fire, suction and wet cupping, what the round marks are, and what a 2025 meta-analysis and a sham-controlled fibromyalgia trial reported. https://acuiq.com/wiki/techniques/cupping ### Safety (https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety) What the warnings on a point mean, and the ones that change with the patient in front of you. - **"Bleeding and anticoagulants"** – Studies of acupuncture in people on anticoagulants mostly found small bleeds at the needle site at rates close to untreated controls, while a 2023 Taiwanese study of 13.4m sessions found higher odds of bleeding with warfarin and newer anticoagulants. Haemophilia, low platelets and guidance. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/bleeding-and-anticoagulants - **"After a treatment"** – A 2021 review of 21 prospective studies found at least one adverse event in about 9 in 100 patients over a course of acupuncture, half of them bleeding, pain or redness at the needle site. What else it and a 2004 patient survey recorded, how often, and the symptoms of the rare serious events. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/after-a-treatment - **"Electrical stimulation and implants"** – TENS disturbed the sensing of implanted defibrillators in 16 of 30 patients in a 2008 study and in 17 of 107 with newer devices in 2023; case reports describe shocks during electroacupuncture. Needle pairs below the elbow or knee put no detectable current in the chest. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/electrical-stimulation-and-implants - **"Infection and clean needles"** – Reviews of case reports found hepatitis B made up over 60% of acupuncture infections reported up to 2004, and none in 2000 to 2011 after single-use needles became the rule; 191 of 239 infections since came from five outbreaks traced to equipment and towels. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/infection-and-clean-needles - **"Needling over the chest"** – A 2010 review of 479 adverse events in the Chinese literature counted 201 pneumothoraces, 64% after needling at the shoulder and scapula; a Taiwanese cohort found 0.87 per million treatments. Ultrasound studies put the pleura under GB21 at a mean of 15 to 42 mm. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/needling-over-the-chest - **"Acupuncture in older adults"** – A Japanese survey of 4,369 sessions found adverse events in 7.6% of sessions for patients in their 80s against 8.6% under 30, with age not a significant factor. BackInAction, a 2025 trial in 800 adults aged 65 and over, reported minor events in 9.7% of those offered acupuncture. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/older-adults - **"Needling the neck"** – A 2010 review of the Chinese literature counted 35 subarachnoid haemorrhages after needling at the back of the neck, 3 fatal, and a death after CV22. An MRI study of 394 patients put the dura a mean 4.9 cm below GV15 and the vessels 1.6 cm below ST09. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/needling-the-neck - **"Metal allergy and acupuncture needles"** – Stainless-steel acupuncture needles analysed in 2014 were about 10-12% nickel and 18-21% chromium. Case reports describe patch-test-confirmed allergy to both, granulomas from gold thread and silicone coatings, and silver staining from embedded needles. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/metal-allergy - **"Broken and retained needles"** – Retained needles were 31% of 325 acupuncture incidents reported to the UK's National Patient Safety Agency in 2009 to 2011. A Japanese review traced 48 of 124 adverse events to broken or deliberately embedded needles, and case reports find fragments in the spine, heart and kidney. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/broken-and-retained-needles - **"Acupuncture in cancer care"** – A 2024 international panel advises against needling below 500 neutrophils or 20,000 platelets per microlitre and in limbs at risk of lymphoedema, while trials that needled such arms at Memorial Sloan Kettering reported bruising and one skin infection. Guidance and evidence. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/acupuncture-in-cancer-care - **"Reading a point warning"** – Almost every point AcuiQ catalogues carries a warnings field. What those cautions mean, which are anatomical and which are conditional, why the anatomical count is a count of source text rather than of anatomy, and why a warning that contradicts the same point’s indications is the case to watch for. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/reading-a-point-warning - **"Pregnancy and the forbidden points"** – The classical forbidden points are forbidden because they are held to move a pregnancy along – which makes the same points the standard choice at term. How AcuiQ separates the two readings across the points that carry a pregnancy caution. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/pregnancy-and-the-forbidden-points - **"Fainting during treatment"** – A 1990 Taipei clinic study counted 55 fainting episodes in 28,285 acupuncture treatments, nearly nine times as common at a first visit, and every patient was upright. What other surveys counted, and the lying-down protocol WHO sets out. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/fainting-during-treatment - **"Choosing a practitioner"** – Acupuncture is not regulated by law in the UK, is licensed state by state in the US and province by province in Canada, and has had national registration in Australia since 2012. What each regulator and professional body requires, with training hours by route. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/choosing-a-practitioner - **"Burns from moxibustion and cupping"** – A 2014 review of moxibustion case reports found burns in 43 of 64 cases, mostly in newborns, children and people with reduced sensation. What burn units in China, Korea and Australia counted from moxa and alcohol fire cupping, and why cupping leaves marks. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/burns-from-moxibustion-and-cupping - **"Acupuncture for children"** – A 2011 Pediatrics review of 37 reports found 279 adverse events in children treated with needles, 253 of them mild and 25 serious. What later reviews counted, how fear of needles and non-needle methods change the picture, and why no study has yet measured the risk. https://acuiq.com/wiki/safety/acupuncture-for-children ### Theory (https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory) The frame the prescriptions were written in, and what it means for what you can look up. - **"Causes of disease"** – Chinese medicine sorts causes of disease into three categories: external (the six excesses of wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness and fire), internal (the seven emotions) and neither (diet, overwork, injury, bites). How WHO's 2007 and 2022 terminologies define each. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/causes-of-disease - **"Patterns, symptoms and what you can look up"** – Chinese medicine prescribes against patterns, not complaints. A large part of AcuiQ’s index is therefore patterns, therapeutic actions and tongue-and-pulse findings rather than symptoms – what the difference is, and what it means for a search. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/patterns-and-symptoms - **"Acupuncture in the West"** – Historians call Willem ten Rhijne's De acupunctura (London, 1683) the West's first detailed treatise on acupuncture. A 1971 New York Times report by James Reston started US interest, and a 1997 NIH panel found efficacy for nausea after surgery and chemotherapy and for dental pain. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/acupuncture-in-the-west - **"Qi, blood and body fluids"** – What Chinese medical theory means by qi, blood, the jin and ye fluids, essence and spirit, in the WHO’s 2007 definitions, and what tests of the theory found. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/qi-blood-and-body-fluids - **"The six stages and the four levels"** – Chinese medicine stages an acute fever three ways: Zhang Zhongjing's six stages, Ye Tianshi's four levels and Wu Jutong's three jiao. How the WHO terminologies of 2007 and 2022 define each, how they map onto the eight principles and the organs, and what research has tested. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/six-stages-and-four-levels - **"Warm disease and epidemics"** – The warm disease school treats acute fevers and epidemics as heat entering from outside. Hanson traces it from antiquity to SARS; systematic reviews of the herbs China used for SARS and COVID-19 report small trials of low quality. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/warm-disease-and-epidemics - **"Channel sinews and divergent channels"** – The Lingshu describes twelve channel sinews that bind at the joints and are needled where they hurt, and twelve divergent channels that leave each channel and rejoin it in six pairs. What the texts say, how practice uses them, and what the few trials report. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/channel-sinews-and-divergent-channels - **"Ashi points"** – The WHO's 2007 terminology defines the ashi point as a point with no name or fixed location, found by tenderness. Its sources run from Lingshu chapter 13 and the Qianjin yaofang to a 1977 claim of 71% overlap with trigger points that Birch put at 18 to 19%. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/ashi-points - **"The classical texts"** – The Mawangdui texts of 168 BCE name eleven vessels and no points; the Huangdi Neijing records 160, Huangfu Mi's Zhenjiu jiayi jing (256–260) 349 names, and Wang Weiyi's manual and bronze figures (1027) 354. What each classical text added to the point system. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/the-classical-texts - **"The extraordinary vessels"** – The eight vessels Chinese medical theory places outside the twelve channels, their courses in WHO terms, and how the Nanjing and Li Shizhen describe them. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/the-extraordinary-vessels - **"The five phases"** – Wood, fire, earth, metal and water as the WHO’s 2007 terminology defines them, the engendering and restraining cycles, and how the theory selects points. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/the-five-phases - **"Yin and yang"** – What yin and yang meant in the Suwen, the four relationships the WHO defines, and how the pair sorts the organs, the channels and a patient’s findings. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/yin-and-yang - **"The zang-fu organs"** – The five zang, six fu and extraordinary fu of Chinese medical theory, the functions the WHO gives each, and why the theory’s Spleen is not the spleen. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/the-zang-fu-organs - **"The four examinations"** – Inspection, listening and smelling, inquiry and palpation as the WHO defines them, and a 2019 review in which practitioners agreed 57% of the time. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/the-four-examinations - **"The eight principles"** – Interior and exterior, cold and heat, deficiency and excess, yin and yang: the WHO’s definitions, where the scheme came from, and two studies of agreement. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/the-eight-principles - **"Common patterns"** – How the 2007 and 2022 WHO terminologies define six patterns common in AcuiQ's index, from qi stagnation to bi (impediment), their ICD-11 chapter 26 codes, and what studies report on practitioners agreeing on them. https://acuiq.com/wiki/theory/common-patterns ### Research (https://acuiq.com/wiki/research) What reading the acupuncture literature at scale turns up, including in our own database. - **"Errors in the catalogue’s Chinese point names"** – On 9 October 2026 AcuiQ checked the characters and pinyin of its 773 points against a character dictionary and China’s national standard, and corrected 154 rows: readings no dictionary gives, everyday readings in place of the point’s, mixed character forms and two wrong characters. https://acuiq.com/wiki/research/point-name-errors - **"Where the trials come from"** – Of 584 large acupuncture trials published 2015 to 2019, 92.5% were run in China, and Chinese-language trials in Cochrane reviews report larger effects with more risk of bias. Where the trials come from, the databases that index them, and what registration shows. https://acuiq.com/wiki/research/where-the-trials-come-from - **"Evidence maps"** – A 2025 overview of 862 acupuncture reviews placed 10 of 184 conditions in its top evidence category; a 2017 Australian project placed 8 of 122. What these and the 2011, 2014 and 2022 evidence maps counted, how they graded it, and where they agree. https://acuiq.com/wiki/research/evidence-maps - **"Positive results in acupuncture research and in AcuiQ’s data"** – An ongoing audit of the acupuncture evidence base and of AcuiQ’s own data: 541 protocols derived from animal research, since removed; 1,034 that cannot be verified; 31 point pages that forbade the condition they treated. Only 10% of registered trials had a full paper in PubMed by 2019. https://acuiq.com/wiki/research/nothing-ever-fails - **"Conformance register"** – AcuiQ measured its database against eleven stated norms and published the result. The rules that catch the database contradicting itself come in under 2.4%. The one that asks how many independent sources a recommendation rests on comes in at 65%, and 191 of those conditions rest on a single page of one website. https://acuiq.com/wiki/research/conformance - **"Cost-effectiveness of acupuncture"** – A 2006 BMJ analysis put acupuncture for low back pain at £4,241 per QALY; NICE's 2021 chronic pain model found £5,710 to £14,552. The cost-per-QALY studies from the UK, Germany and the US, and why NICE reversed on back pain in 2016. https://acuiq.com/wiki/research/cost-effectiveness - **"Placebo and expectation"** – A 2008 trial in 262 people with IBS found sham acupuncture with a warm 45-minute consultation outperformed the same sham with minimal contact. What trials report about expectation, practitioner manner and open-label placebo in acupuncture. https://acuiq.com/wiki/research/placebo-and-expectation - **"Mechanism studies in people"** – Human mechanism studies of acupuncture: naloxone trials from 1977 that disagreed, fMRI and PET studies of needling and sham, a retracted 1998 visual-cortex finding, and a 2012 study measuring adenosine at ST36 in 13 volunteers. https://acuiq.com/wiki/research/mechanism-studies-in-people - **"Sham acupuncture"** – The kinds of sham control acupuncture trials use, what was measured about each, and why a result against sham compares two active procedures. https://acuiq.com/wiki/research/sham-acupuncture - **"Reading an acupuncture trial"** – The 2010 STRICTA standard asks an acupuncture trial to report six items and 17 sub-items, from needle depth to practitioner background. How the control, blinding, outcome and sample size shape a result, and how Cochrane's RoB 2 and GRADE rate trials and reviews. https://acuiq.com/wiki/research/reading-an-acupuncture-trial - **"Auricular point code collisions"** – Across 48,579 point references AcuiQ extracted from the literature, 37 resolved to a different real point because the published code did not say which nomenclature it used. The audit, and a crosswalk for the auricular codes. https://acuiq.com/wiki/research/codes-are-not-identifiers ## Programmatic Access (for AI Agents & Developers) - **Full content export**: https://acuiq.com/llms-full.txt - **MCP server** (JSON-RPC 2.0, streamable HTTP): https://acuiq.com/api/mcp – rate limit 60 requests per minute per IP - **Agent reference** (endpoint, call order, limits, licence, twins): https://acuiq.com/agents.md - **Agent card** (A2A): https://acuiq.com/.well-known/agent-card.json (legacy path: /.well-known/agent.json) - **OpenAPI 3.1 spec**: https://acuiq.com/openapi.json (also /.well-known/openapi.json and /api/openapi.json) - **MCP manifest**: https://acuiq.com/.well-known/mcp.json - **Markdown twins**: every symptom page at /symptoms/{slug}.md, every acupoint page at /points/{code}.md and every wiki page at /wiki/{section}/{slug}.md serves a markdown version of the same content (e.g. https://acuiq.com/symptoms/headache.md, https://acuiq.com/points/li04.md, https://acuiq.com/wiki/nomenclature/point-codes.md) - **Auricular crosswalk** (ISO/WFAS codes → catalogue, CC BY 4.0): https://acuiq.com/data/auricular-crosswalk-v1.json - **Atlas tiles** (IIIF Image API 3, level 0): https://acuiq.com/iiif/{body-MU|body-SK|body-SN|auricle-AU|scalp-SL}/info.json - All endpoints are anonymous – no account, no API key, no sign-up - REST rate limits per endpoint: see the OpenAPI spec ## Explore AcuiQ - Homepage + symptom search: https://acuiq.com - Browse all symptoms (A–Z): https://acuiq.com/symptoms - Explore meridians: https://acuiq.com/meridians - Interactive acupoint atlas: https://acuiq.com/atlas - Wiki (method, nomenclature, safety, theory, research): https://acuiq.com/wiki - Acupoint pages: https://acuiq.com/points/{code} (e.g. https://acuiq.com/points/li04) - Method, sources, and limits: https://acuiq.com/wiki/method/how-acuiq-is-built - Frequently asked questions: https://acuiq.com/faq ## About the Publisher AcuiQ is a searchable index that helps practitioners and the public find the acupuncture points published studies and clinical texts prescribed for a symptom, each with its source. Anonymous: no account and no personal data, and a search adds only a count to the symptom it matched. Method, sources, ranking, the tool's stated limits, and the commercial-interest disclosure: https://acuiq.com/wiki/method/how-acuiq-is-built ## Licence & attribution AcuiQ-authored prose – the symptom and meridian descriptions, every wiki page, the auricular crosswalk, and the atlas ear and scalp-line plates – is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ You may ingest, embed, and redistribute this content in RAG systems, fine-tuning datasets, or other derivative works, including commercially. Attribution at the dataset or system level is sufficient. - Recommended attribution: "Source: AcuiQ (https://acuiq.com), CC BY 4.0" - SPDX identifier: CC-BY-4.0 THE ASSEMBLED COMPILATION IS LICENSED SEPARATELY. The protocol corpus – the extraction, the resolution of every reference, and the arrangement – may be used to build on, with attribution. It may not be redistributed whole or substantially whole as a dataset, or as a product whose main value is access to it. Terms: https://acuiq.com/terms The body diagrams (muscular, dermal, skeletal layers and their point crops) are not licensed for reuse. The grant covers neither the compilation nor the underlying findings: each protocol entry records what a cited published source prescribed – the facts are the sources' claims, and each entry carries its citation. Verify against the cited source before relying on an entry. None of this is medical advice: https://acuiq.com/terms --- ## Symptom Index - [Insomnia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/insomnia) - [Back Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/back-pain) - [Anxiety](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/anxiety) - [Depression](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/depression) - [Uterine and Menstrual Conditions](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/uterine-and-menstrual-conditions) - [Osteoarthritis Knee](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/osteoarthritis-knee) - [Low Back Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/low-back-pain) - [Fatigue](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/fatigue) - [Nausea](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/nausea) - [Knee Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/knee-pain) - [Paralysis Facial](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/paralysis-facial) - [Abdominal Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/abdominal-pain) - [Neck Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/neck-pain) - [Postoperative Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/postoperative-pain) - [Headache](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/headache) - [Vomiting](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/vomiting) - [Stroke](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/stroke) - [Shoulder Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/shoulder-pain) - [Ischemic Stroke](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/ischemic-stroke) - [Tinnitus](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/tinnitus) - [Constipation](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/constipation) - [Dizziness](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dizziness) - [Post-Operative Nausea](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/post-operative-nausea) - [Obesity](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/obesity) - [Dysmenorrhea Primary](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dysmenorrhea-primary) - [Post-Operative Vomiting](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/post-operative-vomiting) - [Diarrhea](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/diarrhea) - [Hormonal Imbalance](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/hormonal-imbalance) - [Lumbar Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/lumbar-pain) - [Dysmenorrhea](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dysmenorrhea) - [Hypertension](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/hypertension) - [Headache Migraine](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/headache-migraine) - [Allergic Rhinitis](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/allergic-rhinitis) - [Menstrual Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/menstrual-pain) - [Cognitive Impairment](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/cognitive-impairment) - [Cognitive Impairment Mild](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/cognitive-impairment-mild) - [Parkinson's Disease](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/parkinsons-disease) - [Sleep Disturbance](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/sleep-disturbance) - [Dysphagia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dysphagia) - [Labor Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/labor-pain) - [Urinary Incontinence](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/urinary-incontinence) - [Dyspnea](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dyspnea) - [Stroke Sequelae](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/stroke-sequelae) - [Hemiplegia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/hemiplegia) - [Stiffness Knee](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/stiffness-knee) - [Depression Post-stroke](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/depression-post-stroke) - [Cough](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/cough) - [Paralysis Facial Peripheral](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/paralysis-facial-peripheral) - [Dysphagia Post-stroke](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dysphagia-post-stroke) - [Fatigue Cancer-related](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/fatigue-cancer-related) - [Depression Cancer-related](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/depression-cancer-related) - [Nasal Congestion](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/nasal-congestion) - [Lumbar Disc Herniation](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/lumbar-disc-herniation) - [Arthritis Rheumatoid](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/arthritis-rheumatoid) - [Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/polycystic-ovary-syndrome-pcos) - [Neuropathic Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/neuropathic-pain) - [Heat](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/heat) - [Urinary Retention](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/urinary-retention) - [Gastrointestinal Dysfunction Postoperative](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/gastrointestinal-dysfunction-postoperative) - [Neuropathy Peripheral Chemotherapy-induced](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/neuropathy-peripheral-chemotherapy-induced) - [Asthma](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/asthma) - [Insomnia Chronic](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/insomnia-chronic) - [Sneezing](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/sneezing) - [Infertility Female](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/infertility-female) - [Breast Cancer](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/breast-cancer) - [Hemiplegia Post-stroke](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/hemiplegia-post-stroke) - [Joint Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/joint-pain) - [Migraine](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/migraine) - [Pelvic Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/pelvic-pain) - [Dyspepsia Functional](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dyspepsia-functional) - [Chemotherapy Nausea](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/chemotherapy-nausea) - [Abdominal Bloating](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/abdominal-bloating) - [Abdominal Distension](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/abdominal-distension) - [COPD](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/copd) - [Memory Impaired](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/memory-impaired) - [Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/pain) - [Cancer Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/cancer-pain) - [Low Back Chronic Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/low-back-chronic-pain) - [Vertigo](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/vertigo) - [Vomiting Chemotherapy-induced](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/vomiting-chemotherapy-induced) - [Leg Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/leg-pain) - [Sciatica](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/sciatica) - [Dry Eye](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dry-eye) - [Fever](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/fever) - [Hot Flashes](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/hot-flashes) - [Infertility](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/infertility) - [Memory Loss](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/memory-loss) - [Constipation Functional](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/constipation-functional) - [Memory Impairment](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/memory-impairment) - [Itching](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/itching) - [Qi Stagnation](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/qi-stagnation) - [Epigastric Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/epigastric-pain) - [Insomnia Primary](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/insomnia-primary) - [Procedural Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/procedural-pain) - [Sleep Quality Poor](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/sleep-quality-poor) - [Overweight](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/overweight) - [Palpitations](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/palpitations) - [ Bloating](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/bloating) - [Common Cold](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/common-cold) - [Damp](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/damp) - [Irritability](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/irritability) - [Nasal Itching](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/nasal-itching) - [Facial Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/facial-pain) - [Spasticity Post-stroke](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/spasticity-post-stroke) - [Stiffness Neck](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/stiffness-neck) - [Urinary Urgency](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/urinary-urgency) - [Ileus Postoperative](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/ileus-postoperative) - [Migraine Without Aura](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/migraine-without-aura) - [Chest Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/chest-pain) - [Sleep Disorder](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/sleep-disorder) - [Spasticity Upper Limb](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/spasticity-upper-limb) - [Perimenopausal Syndrome](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/perimenopausal-syndrome) - [Urinary Frequency](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/urinary-frequency) - [Blood Deficiency](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/blood-deficiency) - [Cognitive Decline](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/cognitive-decline) - [Incontinence Urinary Stress](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/incontinence-urinary-stress) - [Obesity Abdominal](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/obesity-abdominal) - [Perioperative Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/perioperative-pain) - [Radiculopathy Cervical](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/radiculopathy-cervical) - [Temporomandibular Disorder](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/temporomandibular-disorder) - [Bi Syndrome](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/bi-syndrome) - [Chronic Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/chronic-pain) - [Dementia Senile](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dementia-senile) - [Insulin Resistance](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/insulin-resistance) - [Irritable Bowel Syndrome Diarrhea-predominant](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/irritable-bowel-syndrome-diarrhea-predominant) - [Motor Dysfunction](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/motor-dysfunction) - [Neck Chronic Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/neck-chronic-pain) - [Paralysis Hemiplegia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/paralysis-hemiplegia) - [Spasticity](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/spasticity) - [Tremor](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/tremor) - [Vertigo Cervical](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/vertigo-cervical) - [Bell's Palsy](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/bells-palsy) - [Chronic Fatigue Syndrome](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/chronic-fatigue-syndrome) - [Cognitive Dysfunction Postoperative](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/cognitive-dysfunction-postoperative) - [Opioid Dependence](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/opioid-dependence) - [Paralysis Upper-limb](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/paralysis-upper-limb) - [Qi Deficiency](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/qi-deficiency) - [Ulcerative Colitis](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/ulcerative-colitis) - [Hypertension Essential](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/hypertension-essential) - [Nocturia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/nocturia) - [Menopause](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/menopause) - [Obesity Simple](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/obesity-simple) - [Spinal Cord Injury](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/spinal-cord-injury) - [Traumatic Brain Injury](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/traumatic-brain-injury) - [Infant Colic](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/infant-colic) - [Dementia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dementia) - [Diplopia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/diplopia) - [Ovarian Problems](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/ovarian-problems) - [Gag Reflex](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/gag-reflex) - [Spleen Deficiency](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/spleen-deficiency) - [Stress](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/stress) - [Trigeminal Neuralgia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/trigeminal-neuralgia) - [Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/benign-prostatic-hyperplasia) - [Depression Major](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/depression-major) - [Dysarthria](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dysarthria) - [Headache Tension-type](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/headache-tension-type) - [Hearing Loss](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/hearing-loss) - [Kidney Disease Chronic](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/kidney-disease-chronic) - [Loss Of Appetite](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/loss-of-appetite) - [Neuropathy Peripheral](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/neuropathy-peripheral) - [Pelvic Chronic Pain](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/pelvic-chronic-pain) - [Prostatitis Chronic](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/prostatitis-chronic) - [Smoking Cessation](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/smoking-cessation) - [Stiffness Morning](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/stiffness-morning) - [Sweating](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/sweating) - [Swollen Knee](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/swollen-knee) - [Withdrawal Anxiety](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/withdrawal-anxiety) - [Withdrawal Craving](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/withdrawal-craving) - [Cervical Spondylosis](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/cervical-spondylosis) - [Dementia Vascular](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dementia-vascular) - [Discomfort Gastrointestinal Endoscopy](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/discomfort-gastrointestinal-endoscopy) - [Epilepsy](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/epilepsy) - [Hyperglycemia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/hyperglycemia) - [Motor Dysfunction Post-stroke](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/motor-dysfunction-post-stroke) - [Myopia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/myopia) - [Recovery Postoperative](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/recovery-postoperative) - [Restless Legs Syndrome](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/restless-legs-syndrome) - [Rhinorrhea](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/rhinorrhea) - [Balance Impaired](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/balance-impaired) - [Carpal Tunnel Syndrome](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/carpal-tunnel-syndrome) - [Cognitive Impairment Post-stroke](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/cognitive-impairment-post-stroke) - [Dermatitis Atopic](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/dermatitis-atopic) - [Disc Herniation Lumbar](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/disc-herniation-lumbar) - [Fatigue Chronic](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/fatigue-chronic) - [Hand Numbness](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/hand-numbness) - [Hysterical Paralysis](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/hysterical-paralysis) - [Myathenia Gravis](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/myathenia-gravis) - [Myelitis Myatrophy Progressive](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/myelitis-myatrophy-progressive) - [Neuritis Multiple](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/neuritis-multiple) - [Neurological Deficit](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/neurological-deficit) - [Extremities Numbness](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/extremities-numbness) - [Paralysis Periodic](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/paralysis-periodic) - [Paraplegia Traumatic](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/paraplegia-traumatic) - [Sequellae Poliomyelitis](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/sequellae-poliomyelitis) - [Stiffness Shoulder](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/stiffness-shoulder) - [Stroke Ischemic Acute](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/stroke-ischemic-acute) - [Tinnitus Subjective](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/tinnitus-subjective) - [Arrhythmia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/arrhythmia) - [Atrial Fibrillation](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/atrial-fibrillation) - [Bradykinesia](https://acuiq.com/symptoms/bradykinesia)