Acupuncture for Depression

resource for referrals to licensed acupuncturists. You can also do a search for practitioners in your area at the websites of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture and the National Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance.

Some 70 to 80 percent of insurers in the US cover acupuncture treatments. Cost per treatment tends to range between $30 and $100. Physician acupuncturists may charge more than non-physician practitioners.

Finally, if you are on medication, don't expect to flush your pills down the toilet after your first visit. This is a matter you will have to work out between you and your doctor or psychiatrist. Fortunately, Karen had an acupuncturist who recognized this. In her words: "I appreciated Dr. Chen's discretion in advising me about the medication. He told me that since he's not a medical doctor he couldn't tell me how much to take or when to quit. He just made me feel comfortable that the acupuncture would still do its job whether I went off the medication or not."

For the NIH report on acupucture, please click here.

For a USA Today article on the acupuncture study, please click here.

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