Acupuncture Bellmore is widely known to cure over eating.  Acupuncturists usually look for the organs involved in the disease and depending on the state of each organ, give appropriate stimulation to those organs.  A weak organ will need to be perked up, an under active organ stimulated while an over active one will need to be sedated.  Acupuncture needles are inserted into the meridians to purposefully initiate the process of toning or perking up, sedating or stimulating the organs.

Acupuncture is also used to help substance abusers cope up with their addiction.  There are many recorded cases since the 1970’s of patients being treated with acupuncture who have completely turned around and now lead normal healthy lives.  The substances abused mostly were either cocaine, heroin or both.

The application of auricular acupuncture where needles are inserted in meridian points in the shen men meridians in the ear and some in the lung, spine and liver have shown to be responsible for the decreased and even zero dependency on illegal drugs.

Such research was published by the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2000, which shows that out of 82 adults, more than 54% tested free of cocaine after eight weeks of treatment.

This study gave impetus for the criminal justice system to incorporate auricular acupuncture into the rehabilitation program for substance abusers.

Acupuncture can take out addiction because this therapy usually addresses the root and pathology for the craving.  How does acupuncture regulate the addiction?  Acupuncture enables chi to flow normally throughout the body nourishing each organ of this life force.  An organ that has an impeded flow of chi develops diseases and ailments that manifest physiologically, neurologically and emotionally.

In TCM, drugs, cocaine in particular, affect all the organs causing complete disharmony of yin. Yin is the principle that governs all non-fluid elements in the body.  Yin deficiency in the organs leads to a whole litany of problems ranging from paranoia to renal infarction.

In cocaine addiction, the chi stagnates in the lungs.  The lung is essential for assisting the heart in blood circulation.  Chi deficiency due to cocaine causes tachycardia and peripheral vascular collapse.  Furthermore, the heart and lung distributes the cocaine throughout the body.

Cocaine causes heart yin deficiency causing sleep problems and vertigo.  The deficient yin in the heart causes the kidney to react and regulate heart yin and this activity in turn results in kidney yin imbalance.

Acupuncture as the best treatment for substance abuse is quite inexpensive and has no side effects.  It is usually taken with herbal medicine to optimally treat the addiction and to detoxify the body of cocaine toxins.  Acupuncture has been a great success over the years for treating most kinds of addictions and it has been proven the cheapest and safest way, so far.