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Has anyone successfully defeated Depression with just Traditional Chinese Medicine?

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2. I'm sure somebody has I think the AMA and most medice is just for money, not curing folks. If they really wanted to cure people, they would find the folks who got better or mostly better (from anything), then reverse engineer the cures.
3. Yup! I love Ayurveda, Pratha yoga and Chinese Medicine! I swear by it!
4. I'm sure people have. If nothing else, the placebo effect can be very powerful with something like depression, and people can sometimes recover from it just by believing the treatment will work, even if all they're actually getting are sugar pills. That doesn't always work, and for the FDA to approve an antidepressant treatment it has to be proven significantly more effective than a placebo, but in many clinical studies, the placebo group will still show something like 30% reporting improvement (and the treatment being tested may only be around 60%, so while it's cearly more effective than placebo, it doesn't necessarily work for everyone). I'm not really familiar with Traditional Chinese Medicine, but my understanding is that at least some of the herbs they use contain compounds with proven medical applications. Although the treatments are not necessarily subjected to any sort of reliable scientific tested, and are not necessarily effective, there's a very large body of anecdotal evidence supporting the efficacy of many traditional remmedies, and it's likely that many of them do have significiant medical benefits. Modern medical research sometimes looks to traditional medicine from various cultures as potential sources to identify possible compounds that may be usefull in treating various conditions (or that may provide useful clues for designing synthetic molecules that may be more effective or produce fewer side effects). While traditional treatments may not be supported by scientific evidence proving their efficacy or safety, that doesn't mean that they can't be effective or safe, just that there's no proof that they are. I consider it safer to stick with treatments were you can look up controlled, peer-reviewed scientific studies demonstrating the efficacy adn safety of a treatment. But that doesn't mean that treatments that haven't been subjected to the same level of scientific testing aren't just as safe and effective, it just means that it's harder to be sure, and you can't look it up. Not knowing whether or not it's a good treatment doesn't mean that it's not, it just means that you don't know for sure either way. Of course, you don't really know for sure with modern medicine either - they do miss things sometimes, and there are some fairly questionable things that go on with which studies get published and which don't - but you do have the option to look up the study and decide for yourself how reliable you think it is, and there's a much better chance that something is going to be safe and effective if it has been subjected to that level of testing that if it hasn't.