Although I am skeptical about the benefit I just started acupuncture. I had one of my surgeries at the Mayo Clinic and at one visit asked the dr if he had heard about acupuncture for salivary gland function. I ended up being referred to the dr in the pain clinic who does acupuncture for pain and he has recently been working with a radiation oncologist to study the effects of acupuncture. They have done one very small preliminary study and showed some improvement in about 50% of patients. However, he was not able to quantify what improvement really meant in practical terms. In any event I figured it couldn't hurt to try. I have had 3 treatments of the six total. I have not been given candy to suck at the treatments as described in the previous study Brian referred to. To date I don't think I've noticed improvement but I will continue and let you know the results.