[Advances in clinical and mechanism studies of acupuncture and moxibustion for treatment of depression].
OBJECTIVE
To introduce clinical and mechanism studies about treatment of depression by acupuncture and moxibustion in recent years.


METHODS
Review was made from clinical controls, mechanism studies and animal experiments.


CONCLUSIONS
Acupuncture and moxibustion have definite therapeutic effect on depression, with less adverse effects, but some problems in clinical and mechanism studies remain to be resolved.
Cheng
Kun
K
The First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin College of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China. icdcqzy@yahoo.com.cn
Yan
Hong
H
Duan
Ke-jie
KJ
D026881:Acupuncture; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy; D003866:Depressive Disorder; D006801:Humans; D009071:Moxibustion; D016896:Treatment Outcome