Scientific Proof to How your Body react to Acupuncture - Depression

Regular frequent sessions of Acupuncture will treat Depression.

Psychiatric disorders are some of the most common and difficult illnesses to treat in medicine. Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders.

tcm-acupuncture-science-depression — Depression manifests in feelings of emptiness, deep sadness or misery, loss of hope, and even thoughts of suicide.

Depression is one of the conditions considered to be difficult to treat. Despite the evidence-based effectiveness of antidepressants, anxiolytics and psychotherapy, relapse rates for depression can be almost half. It is said that non compliance of patients due to the intolerable side effects of drugs play a large part in the high rates of relapse.

“Ultimately, many patients turn to complementary and alternative medicines, of which acupuncture is the most highly sought after for help. ”

Of course, Science supports acupuncture for depression and is backed by evidence based researches such as those below.

Conclusion: Behavioral indicators including the number of crossings (NC) and the number of rearings (NR) in open feld test (OFT), the capacity of sucrose intake (CSI) and the rate of sucrose intake (RSI) in sucrose intake test (SIT), fnal weight (FW) and gain weight (GW) were employed as main outcomes in depression model rats. The pooled results showed that acupuncture has not less effect on behavior changes than western medicine, including improving NC, NR, RSI, FW and GW in depression models.