Whole Body Healing Vermont Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

Acupuncture and Depression

Research on Acupuncture's Effectiveness on treating Depression:

National Institutes for Health (NIH) have established the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine which funds research studies in the holistic treatments. The results are hopeful. In 1998, Dr. John Allen and other researchers at the University of Arizona used acupuncture to treat a sample of women with depression. After a total of 12 sessions, 70% of the women experienced at least a 50% reduction of symptoms. This research marked the first U.S. randomized, controlled, double-blind study of acupuncture's effectiveness in treating depression. The NIH funded study concludes, "Acupuncture may alter brain chemistry by changing the release of neurotransmitters and neurohormones in a good way."

Acupuncture & Depression- All subjects receiving acupuncture for major depression significantly improved by a greater margin than those not receiving treatment. Another study suggests that electro-acupuncture can produce the same therapeutic results as tetra cyclic drugs but with fewer side effects and better symptomatic improvement. Acupuncture Treatment for Major Depression, the tenth annual symposium of the Society for Acupuncture Research, 2003. J. Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2004.

At Whole Body Healing we use Acupuncture and Oriental medicine along with Classic Chinese herbal formulas to naturally enhance your bodies overall well-being.