Studying Acupuncture and Depression

Acupuncture is a method developed over the course of thousands of years in the East as part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Popular culture portrays acupuncture as pain therapy administered by practitioners using thin needles placed in specific points of the body. Essentially, this is a fair portrayal – although pop culture usually paints the patient as quirky, sometimes to the point of not deserving the fruits of the ancient practice. Modern medicine has a more difficult time finding the right place for acupuncture. TCM precedes the scientific method by a substantial number of years and is now difficult to explain the successes of such things as acupuncture and depression.