Herb Formulas for Addictions

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I believe NADA uses chai hu long gu mu li tang

or xiao chai hu tang concurrently with their

auriculotherapy. Not sure how they decide which

of the two formulas to give... of course you could

do pattern discrim...

 

Thanks for that abstract- I'd seen that before and

forgot about it. Interesting that they used yan hu suo,

which I believe is 1% as strong as opium, according

to Bensky.

 

B

 

 

 

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Message: 2

Sun, 01 Jun 2003 14:10:36 -0000

" Danny Levin " <lvds

Addictions

 

Hi all,

 

Is there any general guidelines for the herbal treatment of

addictions?

I'm mainly intrested in treaing drugs and smoking withdrawal.

there is plenty of information in regard to acupuncture treatments

but i could hardly find anything about chinese herbs.

 

I will be grateful for any advice.

Dan

 

 

this is one article i found:

Am J Chin Med 1986;14(1-2):46-50 Related Articles, Links

 

Evaluation on the treatment of morphine addiction by acupuncture

Chinese herbs and opioid peptides.

 

Yang MM, Kwok JS.

 

Experimental studies on the effects of acupuncture, combined Chinese

herbs, and opioid peptides on morphine withdrawal symptoms were

carried out in 119 addicted rats. Electroacupuncture was found to be

the most effective method as it reduced the morphine withdrawal

scores to -85%. The combined herbs, Qiang Huo, Gou Teng, Chuan Xion,

Fu Zi and Yan Hu Suo suppressed the withdrawal scores of -68%. The

opioid peptides, endorphin, enkephalin, and dynorphin, produced

marked sedative effect and alleviated the withdrawal symptoms,

reducing the scores from -28% to -74%. It is suggested that

acupuncture and herbs, being non-opiate and having less side effect,

might be used as alternative or supplementary treatment on morphine

addiction.