The World Health Organisation(WHO) began on the 7th of April 1948. They have offices in over 150 countries. They work alongside policy makers and advisors " to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people".  And based on their research, the World Health Organisation recommends acupuncture.

The WHO recommends acupuncture for these diseased, symptoms or conditions, because acupuncture has been 'prove(d)-through controlled trials-to be an effective treatment':

 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

Headache

Hypertension,essential

Hypotension, primary

Induction of labour

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

Diseases,symptoms or conditions for which The World Health Organisation recommends acupuncture because its therapeutic effect has been shown,although further proof is needed:

Abdominal pain (in acute  gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)

Acne vulgaris

Alcohol dependence and detoxification 

Bell's palsy

Bronchial asthma

Cancer pain

Cardiac neurosis

Cholecystitis,chronic, with acute exacerbation

Cholelithiasis

Competition stress syndrome

Craniocerebral injury, closed

Diabetes mellitus,non-insulin-dependent

Earache

Epidemic hemorrhagic fever

Epistaxis,simple(without generalised or local disease)

Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection

Femaile infertility

Facial spasm

Female urethral syndrome

Fibromyalgia and fasciitis

Gastrokinetic disturbance

Gouty arthritis

Hepatitis B virus carrier status

Herpes zoster(human (alpha)herpes virus 3)

Hyperlipaemia

Hypo-ovarianism

Insomnia

Labour pain

Lactation,deficiency

Male sexual dysfunction,non-organic

Meniere disease

Neuralgia,post-herpetic

Neurodermatitis

Obesity

Opium,cocaine and heroin dependence

Osteoarthritis

Pain due to endoscopic examination

Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans

Polycystic ovary syndrome(Stein-Leventhal syndrome)

Postextubation in children

Postoperative convalescence

Premenstrual syndrome

Prostatitis,chronic

Pruritus

Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome

Raynaud syndrome,primary

Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Retention of urine, traumatic

Schizophrenia

Sialism,drug-induced

Sjogren syndrome

Sore throat( including tonsillitis)

Spine pain, acute

Stiff neck

Temporomandibular joint dysfunction

Tietze syndrome

Tobacco dependence

Tourette syndrome

Ulcerative colitis,chronic

Urolithiasis

Vascular dementia

Whooping cough(pertusssis)

Diseases,symptoms or conditions for which only individual controlled  trials report some therapeutic effects. The World Health Organisation recommends acupuncture for these when treatment by conventional and other therapies is difficult:

Chloasma

Choroidopathy,central serous

Colour blindness

Deafness

Hypophrenia

Irritable colon syndrome

Neuropathic bladder due to spinal cord injury

Pulmonary heart disease, chronic

Small airway obstruction