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The best among them are oils of citronella, cedarwood and orange. Acupuncture may reduce or eliminate symptoms of depression, according to a report published in a recent issue of the journal Psychological Science . They examined levels of self-reported depression in a group of 38 women receiving either acupuncture or no treatment for a period of eight weeks. The remission rate of those patients receiving targeted treatment was nearly double that of patients receiving non-specific acupuncture therapy, the authors add, and much higher than that of women receiving no treatment. V Talk about your grief.