[Acupuncture for treatment of depressive neurosis: a multi-center randomized controlled study].

Objective: To observe the clinical therapeutic effect of acupuncture on depressive neurosis.

Methods: With a multi-center randomized controlled study, 440 cases were randomly divided into an acupuncture group, a prozac group, a non-acupoint needling group. In the acupuncture group, Hegu (LI 4) and Taichong (LR 3) were selected, and the Prozac group were treated with administration of 20 mg/d and the non-acupoint needling group were treated with needling the points deviating from the acupoints.