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Quit Smoking Tip -- How To Manage Cravings With Herbs
One of the difficulties in trying to quit smoking is that
smokers become physically dependant on nicotine. Smoking affects
the parts of the brain that relate to reward and pleasure. It
increases the amount of the neurotransmitter, dopamine, and the
nature of nicotine is that it creates a cycle of positive
reinforcement within your brain that makes you want more.
Scientists have found that when you withdraw from chronic
nicotine use, it results in changes in these neural pleasure
pathways. And the effect on the brain is similar to what someone
addicted to cocaine, opiates and other drugs experiences. Hence,
depression and anxiety are common.
Fortunately, some resourceful modern herbalists began applying
traditional knowledge to a modern problem. In Ayurvedic
medicine, common garden variety oats (but not oat straw), is
used to treat opium withdrawal. The herbalist Anand, using a
tincture (an alcoholic extract of the herb), applied this same
reasoning to nicotine withdrawal, with significant results.
In a group of 26 heavy smokers, he gave an oat tincture, and in
another group of 26, he gave a placebo. The group who took the
oat tincture smoked less cigarettes, and this effect remained
for two months after they stopped treatment. The herbalist Weiss
theorizes that it is the sedative effect of oats. Oats contain
as active constituents the indole alkaloid, gramine, and the
alkaloids avenine and trigonelline. Oats are described in herbal
medicine texts as helping create a feeling of well-being
whilst
simultaneously acting as a tonic to the nervous system. But
unlike narcotics, these are mild, non-habit forming effects.
My herbal teacher, Ses Salmond, suggested the following formula
for those trying to stop smoking. In a 50ml bottle, mix the
following herbal tinctures:
* 15ml green oats
* 10ml white horehound
* 10ml mullein
* 5ml golden seal
* 10ml peppermint
Take 6 drops on the tongue whenever the craving to have a
cigarette is felt.
Acupuncture is also an excellent support option. HerbMed offers
the following herbal option, to be used on appropriate
acupuncture points. Mix oil of cloves, oil of wintergreen, an
extract of evodia fruit, an extract of sichuan lovage rhizome,
and msg, and apply to specific acupuncture points.
Unfortunately, they don't say which acupuncture points, but this
may be determined by what each person presents with.
Resources: 1. www.herbmed.org/herbs/herb36.htm#Category24Herb36
2. Class notes by Ses Salmond
3. C Fisher & G Painter, Materia Medica Of Western Herbs For The
Southern Hemisphere
4. R Weiss, Herbal Medicine (Beaconsfield Arcanum, 1988)
5. www.drugabuse.gov/Infofacts/Tobacco.html
About the author:
Rebecca Prescott publishes the health ezine, The Vitamin Vine,
and a website offering information on supplements, herbs and vitamins, plus natural
solutions to common health problems.
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