Clinical Application of Acupuncture ACUPUNCTURE FOR QUIT SMOKING

Introduction Acupuncture for quitting smoking is to remove the craving for tobacco through regulating the nervous system and improving the functions of lung. With acupuncture treatment for quitting smoking, the patient will feel thirsty and have a bitter taste in mouth, without desire for cigarettes any more.

Treatment Various ways of acupuncture to quit smoking: Ear points as the Main way Electro -needling to Strenthen the stimulation Body points Used in combination Thread -embedding to consolidate Quit -smoking points To enhance the effect Psycholo -gical treatment To calm the mind

Ear therapy Ear acupuncture falls in the category of micro- acupuncture system. Ear points are closely related to internal zangfu organs through channels and collaterals. That the corresponding regions and points are stimulated to regulate the zangfu organs for the purpose to reduce the addiction to cigarettes and to treat the complications is regarded as the method of first choice for quitting smoking.

Ear therapy—— main points: Lung, Trachea, Subcortex, Mouth, Throat, Inner Nose, Sympathetic Nerve, Shenmen, Stomach, Large Intestine. Select 5-7 points each time. Apply ear-acupuncture or seed-pressure. The seeds stuck to points can be kept for 3-5 days for stimulation. Two ears are used by turns. The first three days the treatments are given everyday and later change to every other day, seven treatments as one course. How many courses should be given is determined by the quantity and history of smoking of the patient.

Body acupuncture with electrostimulation Body acupuncture: the craving for tobacco is manifested by the local symptoms and disorders of zangfu organs. The points Lieque (LU 7), Chize (LU 5), Feishu (BL 13), Fenglong (ST 40) and so on can be selected for acupuncture every other day, the needles can be retained for minutes each time. Proper frequency and waves of electrostimulation can be used for enhancing the therapeutic effect. Generally, in the first course of treatment, the continuous wave is used and in the second course, the dense-disperse wave is used.

New discovery: quit-smoking point The experts discovered that a point on the wrist, a little above the transverse crease of wrist, is effective for quitting smoking, so it is called quit-smoking point. It is located in the depression between Yangxi (LI 5) and Lieque (LU 7). Electric stimulation is applicable.

One of the negative and positive poles of wire connect with quit-smoking point and the other with Lieque (LU 7) or Chize (LU 5) to form the loop of electric current.

Thready embedding Principally, thread embedding can be done at all the points that can be punctured with needles. But the points at the extremities, because the muscles here are not rich, the thread for embedding should be shorter. Clinically, the points Feishu (BL 13), Fenglong (ST 40) and Chize (LU 5) are selected for embedding for consolidating the therapeutic effect of quitting smoking. It is especially important and good for heavy smokers.

Psychological treatment Psychological treatment should be applied for those smokers with a long history. Although acupuncture is miraculous in effect, the result will be not good if the will and desire of patient to give up smoking is not strong enough.

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