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Patches, nicotine gum, candy, fake cigarettes … many people have tried everything to quit but have not succeeded. One of the keys to quitting is to find the right time and again to find the therapy that is best for us. Perhaps the answer lies in alternative therapies.

- Hypnosis: A treatment that is becoming increasingly popular among people who want to quit smoking. Each session lasts one to two hours and is based primarily on relaxation, while, repeat words that evoke ideas or feelings which aims to make the patient feel repelled by the habit of smoking, which help us to reduce anxiety caused by lack of nicotine. It is best combined with traditional therapies, and that hypnosis could help us stop smoking and nicotine patches or gum to stay stopped long enough to erase the withdrawal.

- Traditional Chinese Medicine: This section includes techniques such as auricular therapy, which is based on the stimulation of certain acupuncture Read the rest of this entry »

Today, medicine has a high ability to fight disease and yet, people are increasingly turning to so-called alternative medicines. Perhaps one of the factors responsible for this fact is the loss of human approach in traditional medicine. The mass of the consultations, the long lines to make an appointment with other specialists, x-rays, analysis, etc., Become a doctor’s visit into an odyssey of paperwork.

In a situation like this is normal to proliferate other ways of understanding healing in the higher priority given humane treatment, listening to the patient, knowing their background and personal factors that may influence their discomfort.

However, it should clarify that not all alternative medicines are the same. Above all there is to discard all therapies related to witchcraft, shamanism, faith healing and healers who are not qualified to practice medicine. Unfortunately, in most cases only to pursue profit.

Likewise, there are swindlers who used pseudo-scientific jargon to try to sell Read the rest of this entry »

Diabetes is a chronic disease, as is well known, can not be cured, but treated to be endured in a better way. Acupuncture, this range of traditional Chinese medicine, also has answers to this issue.

Following the conventions of TCM, diabetes is closely related to dysfunction of the lung, spleen and kidney. That is why acupuncture in the hands of specialists, who can click on the appropriate fields to treat different problems, could be a valuable aid for the diabetes patient.

For example, some of the symptoms can be treated by acupuncture in diabetes include thirst, polyphagia, polyuria, tinnitus, anxiety, night sweats, asthenia, fatigue and headaches, among other symptoms. Also correct insulin secretion. Read the rest of this entry »