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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 »

Auriculotherapy is a technique reflexological that we can assess and treat many ailments, from simple to complex in a wide range of imbalances.

Its origin is very remote, was born in ancient China for being there the earliest records of this therapy, but there are also data from your utilazación in Middle Eastern culture.

Today was a French physician, Dr Nogier, who elaborated on their effectiveness through increased knowledge of the application of scientific method, discovering or adding more points of stimulation and its application in many diseases.

When discussing technical reflexologists, we refer to those which apply in certain body parts, in this particular case, “the ear”, but there are many areas in body reflexological, feet, hands, skull, all comply with the principle of the hologram, where a part is equal to the whole process, which is applicable to the functioning of the brain as well.

The popularity of ear has increased its use as adjunctive therapy and often only in the treatment of addictions, obesity, smoking, drugs, etc..

Its application to the approach of traditional Chinese medicine and its theory of five elements, multiply their effectiveness. Used in Chinese hospitals as anesthesia, the method of Ear or the use of special needles to the pinna, as there are various methods of stimulation.

Some of the ailments treated by auriculoterapia are:

Distress, anxiety, depression, addictions, stress, back pain, eye problems, constipation, toothache, joint pains, rheumatism, sciatica, ear infections, allergies, etc.