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سمل
Acupuncture in the
Treatment of Depression
Xavier Chen
2010/12/08
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Before the report begins...
" What is acupuncture? Did you or your
families have acupuncture before?
Please share the experience with us.
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Needle
piercing
’ “Acupuncture” is an alternative therapy
which originated in China thousands of
years ago.
۲ It stimulates the body to promote its
Natural healing mechanism.
١ It is much related to Chinese philosophy
Q. What is the difference between Chinese
medicine and Western medicine ?
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Chinese Philosophy and
Acupuncture
‘ Chinese Philosophy is composed of
Dao, yin and yang, and five elements
' Balance
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Five Elements
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How Dose Acupuncture
Work?
’ Qi(Q]) is a energy running in regular
ways through the body.
‘ Needles are thought to be a tool to
reopen the blocked Qi channel and
restore the flow.
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۱ ۲۷/۵۱۷6 ۲۵۱۵5
are found in the
body: six are yin,
) and six are yang.
=’ Over 400,and even
up to 2000, different
acupuncture points
are along the Qi
channels.
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‘ Scientists believe that “needling the
acupuncture points stimulates the
nervous system to release chemicals.
* Natural healing ability
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Acupuncture in the past
° Acupuncture is used for digestive,
respiratory, neurological, muscular
disorders, as well as reproductive
problems.
A New Thought—Acupuncture
for Depression
Thoughts of Chinese medicine: joy,
anger, worry, anxiety, grief, fear,
panic and other emotional states
>Blocked Qi channel > Depression.
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Research 1:Does Acupuncture
Really Treat Depression
Effectively?
(Manber, Allen&Morris, 2002)
A specific treatment
38 women with __.. Nonspecific treatment
major
depression
۷ Wait list
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Results:
The specific treatment’s reduction in
depression scores was not
significantly different than the control
group
But self-report and clinical interviews
showed that specific treatment was
significantly more beneficial than the
non-specific group.
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Reaserch 2:Acupuncture versus
Pharmacology (A)
Larzelere and Wiseman (2002)
Antidepressants
41 patients with
HAM-D scores of
25 or higher
Acupuncture
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Hamilton Depression Rating Scale
(HAM-D )
o amultiple choice questionnaire that clinicians may use to
rate the severity of a patient's major depression
>25----major depression
18-24--moderate depression
7-17--- mild depression
<6-----normal
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Results:
’ Effects were equal
’ But Acupuncture was effective in
decreasing anxiety symptom
prevalence.
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Research 3:Acupuncture versus
Pharmacology (B)
(Roschke, Wolf, &Beck,
2000)
Antidepressant + acupuncture
Randomly assigned 70
depressed patients Antidepressant
Antidepressant + placebo acupuncture
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Results:
‘ There was greater improvement
when acupuncture was applied
compared to plain pharmacological
treatment
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Reaserch 4:A Six trial meta-
analysis
(Smith & Hay, 2004)
Acupuncture
Placebo acupuncture
517 subjects No treatment
fee = Pharmacological
treatment
psychotherapies
Standard care
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Results:
’ No evidence that acupuncture was
better than medication in reducing
the severity of depression, or in
improving depression.
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01.1۳۷ to analyze the effect of
acupuncture according these
research.
Q2.Can we view acupuncture
as a placebo?
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Supporting herbs
1.herbs to cure severe depression or make nerve
system stable:
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2.hurbs used to cure bad mood,chest tightness:
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3.hurbs used to make Qi run in regular ways
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Conclusion
° Many of the trials have found that
acupuncture works at least as
effectively as medication concerning
reduction of symptoms.
5 By self-report and clinical interviews
showed that patients themselves think
acupuncture helps a lot.
° There is no article to show how
acupuncture plus herbs work. People
who research Chinese medicine can
take more efforts in this part.
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Outline
. Introduction of the traditional acupuncture
and how to apply it to healing depression.
. Show the statistics in journals to prove its
efficacy
. Critic: journals only focus on datas ,ignoring
the basic mechanism of acupuncture.
. Introduce the mechanism that how
acupuncture heals depression.
. Chinese medicine’s dilemma in
international journals
. Vision of acupuncture and depression
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