Have you ever wondered how Chinese and Western medical providers look at herbs?  Below is research on a common formula used to assist people in their recovery. (more…)

What will happen if there is a 3% reduction or impaired blood flow to a particular area in your body?

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I remember years back while I was snowboarding in Canada.  I was standing on a snowy cliff getting ready to drop into a steep mountain chute.

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While in recovery a major part of becoming healthy is letting our body heal itself, physically and emotionally.  There is no better way to heal than getting the proper sleep.  But what if you can’t? Then what?

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Depression is a whole body illness.  It involves the whole body, it JUST ISNT IN YOUR HEAD!  Did you know that the majority of serotonin is produced in your “gut”?

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With the average life expectancy around 77 years of age today, how is that ancient Chinese Warlords 2000 years ago lived to be 70 years old? and why does all this concern the individual in recovery?

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Newly Certified Chinese medical Herbologist will be posting articles and answering questions for anybody who has questions, comments or concerns about medical herbs.  Are you concerned about a potential interaction? Will my western medicines mitigate the effects of the herbs?  Can medical herbs help my situation?  How are herbs prescribed? and for how long?  Will I need to take them forever? What are the costs involved? 

Stay tuned for future posts and ideas about medical herbs, western drugs, and the recovery process!  In the meantime, if anybody has any questions, please feel free to “ask away”.  Thank you, and be well

Why is it that at times we think a “one shot deal” will fix us all?  Why is that we tend to think, that as the recovery process evolves my medicine shouldn’t change with me?  Shouldn’t our medicines change as we change? Shouldn’t our focus of medicines change as we heal?  We are dynamic individuals, shouldn’t our medicine be the same?

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Online Recovery Support has formulated an herbal formula that helps treat the symptoms of post acute alcohol withdrawal by helping to reduce cravings. (more…)

The Chinese pharmacopoeia has over 30,000 herbs in it, one of the oldest and most researched is Ge Gen, or better know in the Western world as Kudzu.  Kudzu is a white starchy root used in China and Japan for hangovers and alcohol cravings.  There have been many recent studies that show by taking Kudzu your cravings for alcohol will be less.

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I remember when I got clean and sober one of the biggest problems for me was not feeling well. It was probably eighteen months or even more that I felt poorly and thought I would never get better. While I was in treatment I read the book “Under The Influence” by Dr. James Milam. It is a great book for families and patients alike and talks about “post acute withdrawal” or “protracted withdrawal syndrome,” which is essentially an adjustment period for the body. mind and soul after a long period of using or drinking. He also talks about the arrested development component of the using process that I found interesting. This is not a book endorsement, just encouragement for anybody struggling in their recovery from anything from mental illness or chemical dependency.

Getting and staying clean and sober is hard when you don’t feel good. Pretty much all I did for the first year was sleep, eat, try and get exercise, acupuncture, and go to meetings. The thing that probably helped the most was acupuncture. It helped me relax and generally feel less anxious. For individuals who are in early recovery, or anyone who is feeling like they are having a hard time with the whole recovery process, see a counselor and an acupuncturist in your area. You will feel better about your ability to hang in there during difficult times and along with meetings it will support better long term recovery and quality of life.

When we come off of a substance, any substance, our bodies have withdrawals.  If we drink too much caffeine, take prescriptions drugs, consume alcohol and or even sugar it will produce a reaction in our body when we stop.  This reaction can last for hours to weeks, and it can be annoying to life threatening.  The main organ that is responsible for “cleaning” our body is our Liver.

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Rarely is the addiction the root of our problem.  Typically the addiction is the manifestation of a deeper, quieter, more secretive issue.  For instance, a person may have a deep feeling of separation, therefore they use alcohol (their particular drug of choice in this example) to feel closer to people.  This in turn becomes a repetitive step for individual to feel close, the use of alcohol, and thus the addiction starts.  After a while, to even feel close to oneself, the use of alcohol becomes the pattern in our behavior.

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The following below was a study conducted and an article written about cocaine addiction and acupuncture. As with any study, the results are only as good as the study. One study doesn’t mean that their is enough evidence to say that acupuncture can deal effectively with cocaine addiction, but it does lend itself to the fact that adding acupuncture is a wonderful adjunct therapy. With any addiction, the more positive behavioral models you use, the higher success you have for beating your addiction. Acupuncture should never be used as a “stand alone” method for addictions, but one therapy to be used along with many other therapies. I hope you enjoy the article.

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The National Acupuncture Detoxification Assocation auricular acupuncture protocol is used around the world to help people deal with and recover from substance abuse. The NADA protocol has been shown in a variety of clinical settings to be beneficial in the process of detoxification from substance abuse as well as to help with the emotional, physical and psychological attributes involved in addictions.The detoxification protocols, in contrast with much of Chinese medicine, involve no diagnosis and are usually not modified in any way. Due to the fixed nature of the protocol, many localities allow non-acupuncturists to administer the auricular acupuncture treatments.

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Below is a list, of what i think, shows the strengths and weakness of both medicines. Each medicine is amazing, powerful, and is great in certain circumstances. Also, each medicine has it weakness’s.

I believe Chinese medicine has many benefits and many benefits for the recovery process. Addictions are a wellness style of problem. They are not an “emergency” style of medicine. Though an addiction in crisis is certainly a medical emergency, the recovery, the day in day out, the emotional work that needs to be done to conquer our addictions, i feel, fall under a “wellness” style medicine.Comparing Western and Chinese Medicine. (more…)

Acupuncture is a viable alternative for mental health, and addictions.

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