acupuncture and phytotherapy

Auriculotherapy is highly recommended, in the realms of non-conventional medicine in treating addictions. However as mentioned in other articles, there are no studies that actually prove their effectiveness.
Arthur Margollin, et ally, conducted an investigation to study the true efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of cocaine dependence/addiction. To do this they created a randomized controlled study over [...]

In the foot there are two acupuncture points that lie on the dorsal surface. I mention the acupuncture points LV3/taichong and ST44/Neiting.
Acupuncture point ST44/Neiting is at the distal (anterior) part of the metatarsal-phalangeal articulation, between the 2nd and 3rd toes.
Acupuncture point LV3/taichong lies in the proximal (posterior) part of the inter-osseous space between the 1st and [...]

The acupuncture protocol for the treatment of alcoholism presented in this article was authored by ganglin Yin and Liu Zhenghua and was published in their book Advanced Modern Chinese Acupuncture Therapy. Another article had referred to the protocol of acupuncture. This article serves to indicate the location of the points mentioned.
The acupuncture protocol referred to by the [...]

This short article is taken from the book of Nanjing University, Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, published in 2002 by Publishing House of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It aims to present the model of smoking treatment and drug treatment of the authors of this work for future comparison with other models presented here that have [...]

Like every smoker I love smoking. Otherwise I would not smoke. Like many smokers, but not all, I also have a visceral hatred for the tobacco that causes addiction and the damage it causes, or will cause to my health.
For several times I have quit smoking. In the past I got to be one year without smoking… and back [...]

What is NADA?
NADA stands for National American Detoxification Association (NADA)[i] [ii].
What is the NADA acupuncture protocol?
The NADA acupuncture protocol is a protocol of auricular acupuncture to treat addiction. It is a fixed ear acupuncture protocol that does not involve diagnosis and usually are not changed.
Which are the points that constitute the NADA protocol?
This acupuncture protocol consists [...]

Smoking represents one of the greatest current risks to public health. Among the several therapies for quit smoking (addiction treatment programs) advertised is common to find acupuncture. In particular, auricular acupuncture.
The auricular acupuncture can be done with needles, electrical stimulation or by placing small bead – can be seeds – into specific acupuncture points located on the [...]

The symptoms we want to relieve can be treated in many ways. We can use only the symptomatic acupuncture points or we can try to adapt the entire acupuncture protocol to points dealing with the symptom when framed in a clinical pattern.
One of the symptoms referred was sweating. To treat sweating you can resort to acupuncture points [...]

By this time I have published four texts on acupuncture and addiction. The first text that talks about the true efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of addiction, the gap between scientific studies and alleged successes of 90% addiction treatment, the pacients triage techniques, etc …
I published a trilogy of texts taken from the book Advanced [...]

Completing the trilogy of articles about addictions (alcohol addiction, stop smoking, etc…) – smoking and acupuncture, acupuncture and alcoholism – I’ve decided to write about addictions (heroin addiction, cocain addiction, meth addiction, substance abuse, etc…) and acupuncture. The authors, on which I base these three articles, Ganglin Yin and Zhenghua Liu, presented two different texts for [...]