Auricular Acupuncture Therapy to Support Stop Smoking
markmelch wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
February 21, 2008
Skin Deep
A Traditional Therapy Finds Modern Uses
By CAMILLE SWEENEY
QUITTING cigarettes had always been agony for Michele Fenzl, a 55-year-old computer operator from Denver. Pregnancy got her to stop for a while. But in 35 years of smoking a pack a day, nothing else gave her a reprieve.
Until ear seeds.
Last June, her acupuncturist, Karen Kurtak of the Frontier Medical Institute, started affixing tiny black seeds of a Vaccaria plant to specific points on her ears, to quell cravings between twice-weekly sessions with needles.
It is hard to say which aspect of her multipronged program helped Ms. Fenzl stop smoking, but she attributes her success to the seeds taped onto her ears that she calls “life savers.” … http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/fashion/21SKINtwo.html
Key words: ear acupuncture / auriculotherapy / auricular therapy / auricular medicine
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