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 3 years (November 1996 to April 1999).
In the study, with more than 600 patients, were created three groups: one group with auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture), a sham acupuncture group and a control group (relaxation control condition). Read the rest of this entry »
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 2nd metatarsal. Read the rest of this entry »
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 authors of this book was:
SP6/Sanyinjiao
SP9/Yinlingquan
ST40/fenglong
ST44/Neiting
LV3/Tiachong
PC6/Neiguan
1CV2/Zhongwan
HT7/Shenmen Read the rest of this entry »
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 been or will be submitted in the future.
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 again to smoking. This should say something about my intelligence levels. This school year, which ends now I have quit smoking twice a month and half and other times by 2 or 3 days.
I am currently making almost two weeks without smoking. And confident that this is the time I will be able to quit smoking. I actually have more confidence now than the other times where I felt some weakness against certain social situations like going out to a nightclub, go to coffee or hanging out with smoking friends. Read the rest of this entry »
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 of auricular acupuncture points: LUNG 2, SHENMEN, POINT AUTONOMIC, LIVER, KIDNEY. Read the rest of this entry »
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 ear. A pilot study entitled “Acupressure for smoking cessation – a pilot study”[i] intended to study the effectiveness of pressure on auricular acupuncture points in patients treated to quit smoking.
All patients were subjected to nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and psychological group therapy. Read the rest of this entry »
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 HT6 (Yinxi), SI3 (Houxi), LI4 (hegu), KD7 (fuliu) for example. The most often used acupuncture points to treat sweating are SI3 (Houxi) and HT6 (Yinxi). However I can adjust these points to particular features of the symptoms.
So if we are in summer and there is sweating with heat intolerance we can give more attention to the point LI4 (Hegu). In winter, with cold, or if the patient mention cold sweat I can give attention to the acupuncture point SI3 (Houxi) – opening point of the du may meridian. Point LI4 (hegu) may also be used with moxibustion in order to help warm the body. Read the rest of this entry »
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 Modern Chinese Acupuncture Therapy on nicotine dependence, alcoholism and addiction to other drugs (cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, etc …).
The latter articles focused on the explanation of acupuncture points and acupuncture protocols to combat the addiction directly concerned. But they were fixed acupuncture protocols, they did not explain the principles underlying the acupuncture protocols, nor the logic of their construction so I raised several issues which I will discuss in another article. Read the rest of this entry »
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 smoking and drug abuse of other substances (heroin, meth – methamphetamine -, cocain, etc…).
Although very similar addiction treatment, although one addiction treatment can be used in other type of addiction, the authors showed us as different addiction treatment and so I’ll make the same in this set of articles. Read the rest of this entry »
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