Voice and vocal cords work are closely connected to emotions; changes in voice
caused by emotional state are easily detected by everyone.
This makes vocal cords a valuable path to mediate treatment for emotional traumas and any
condition with emotional background, depression being one of.The scheme, Dryness as general energy behind depression:
Dryness--->Cold--->Dryness--->Dryness: Dryness sedate, Heat tone up, Light, Darkness control
or Ho sedate, He tone up, Neitro, Neito control:
left hand, acute case.
One may use the 2-path approach proposed for cancer treatment:
http://acupunctureforcancerideas.blogspot.com/2012/05/cancer-universal-2-path-scheme.html
considering depression is generally Heat-Dryness disorder:
Dryness--->Cold--->Dryness--->2-path:
--- 1-st - Dryness: Dryness sedate, Heat tone up or Ho sedate, He tone up
--- 2-nd - Heat: the same:
For especially serious cases one may further extend both paths to Burn and Cold energies and even Light-Darkness energies (like in case of real threat to life because of persisting suicidal thoughts, grave depression in case of drug addiction etc).