A recent study of alternative healing methods for depression found acupuncture beneficial. The study was done at a school for Traditional Chinese Medicine. The researchers enlisted a group of about 40 people with severe depression, and allocated half to get 12 acupuncture treatments over eight weeks.
All were taking a standard SSRI antidepressant like Aropax, Prozac or Zoloft. (more). Western medical practitioners remain skeptical, saying the study was limited in its format and there was no proof the treatment continued to work over time.