Quit Smoking Tip -- How To Manage Cravings With Herbs
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Quit Smoking: Managing Cravings with Herbal Remedies
Overview
Are you struggling to quit smoking? Discover how certain herbs can help reduce your cigarette cravings, even after treatment ends. This guide explores nicotine's impact on the brain and introduces effective herbal remedies, including a unique approach combining herbs with acupuncture.
Understanding Nicotine Addiction
Quitting smoking is challenging due to nicotine's addictive nature. Nicotine boosts dopamine, creating a reward cycle in the brain that reinforces addiction. Withdrawal from nicotine can disrupt these pleasure pathways, leading to symptoms similar to those experienced by individuals addicted to drugs like cocaine and opiates, such as depression and anxiety.
Herbal Remedies to the Rescue
Modern herbalists have adapted traditional herbal knowledge to tackle nicotine withdrawal. In Ayurvedic medicine, oats are used for opium withdrawal. Herbalist Anand applied this principle to nicotine, using an oat tincture with notable results. In a study, participants given oat tincture smoked fewer cigarettes, with effects lasting two months post-treatment. Oats have a sedative effect due to active constituents like gramine, avenine, and trigonelline, which promote well-being without being habit-forming.
Herbal Formula for Cravings
My herbal teacher, Ses Salmond, recommends the following tincture blend for those aiming to quit smoking:
- 15ml green oats
- 10ml white horehound
- 10ml mullein
- 5ml goldenseal
- 10ml peppermint
Dosage: Take 6 drops on the tongue whenever you feel a craving for a cigarette.
Combining Herbs with Acupuncture
Acupuncture can effectively complement herbal treatments. HerbMed suggests applying a blend of clove oil, wintergreen oil, evodia fruit extract, sichuan lovage rhizome extract, and a touch of MSG to specific acupuncture points, customized to individual needs.
Conclusion
Herbs offer a promising approach to managing nicotine cravings and can be used independently or alongside treatments like acupuncture. These natural remedies promote well-being by soothing the nervous system and reducing dependence without causing further addiction.
Resources
1. [HerbMed: Herb Information](www.herbmed.org/herbs/herb36.htm)
2. Class notes by Ses Salmond
3. "Materia Medica of Western Herbs for the Southern Hemisphere" by C. Fisher & G. Painter
4. "Herbal Medicine" by R. Weiss
5. [Tobacco Information](www.drugabuse.gov/Infofacts/Tobacco.html)
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