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Alcoholism-treatment - an overview. Comprehensive, complementary and alternative treatment.

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As the competent body. Alcohol poisoning. Some of the effects of chronic alcohol consumption, including brain damage. (The women are vulnerable to chronic drinking). Liver, pancreas, duodenum, and the central nervous system. Alcoholism damages. Each cell in the body metabolic burden. Immune system. It may take years before the effects of Seen too much drinking. If alcohol is drunk, his or her life may be shortened by 10-15 years or more.

Alcohol metabolised in the liver. Repeated consumption of alcohol. Inhibit the production of liver enzymes. Impairment of the ability of the body to absorb protein, fat and fat-soluble vitamins. (Vitamins A, D, E and K) and Vitamins. B - complex (especially B vitamins and folic acid). Vitamins and others. Many important nutrients are not stored for use by the body in order to quickly eliminated by urine toxic effect of alcohol in severe liver disease. Getting a lot of fat in the liver from the effects of alcohol on the ability of the subsidiary bodies. Fat correctly. Next alcoholic hepatitis may develop the condition as an inflammation of the liver and cell death. Terminal stage, death is normal alcoholic liver damage, liver cirrhosis. Of liver diseases, inflammatory qualities and strengths scarring of the liver normally protects the blood inhibited by the body, the liver. Filter toxins and foreign substances.

Liver is the largest organ of the body. It is the only institution that the ability to regenerate itself after some damage has 25 percent of the Liver and can be issued within a short period. Each time the same size and shape of the return is wrong, consistently. If the administrator correctly. Function more than adequately for decades. Alcohol is toxic to liver and other liver can not handle after severe damage caused by alcohol to regenerate

It are several other health effects. Including alcoholism alcohol often suffer damage to the peripheral nervous system. This damage can first as a loss of feeling in hands or feet appear to difficulties in walking. Drinking a chronic inflammation of the pancreas. The following sub impedes the ability of the body fat and other nutrients. And can cause diabetes.

Pages in alcohol-fold risk of throat and mouth cancer by direct Toxicity of alcohol. It can also reduce high blood pressure experience, male hormone. Production growth of blood vessels just under the surface and extend The pathogenesis of heart failure can take heart.

Social consequences of alcohol can be very destructive as well. The abuse of alcohol, the most of society through the traffic and other accident call. Other good practice and the emotional damage. Whole family.

Alcohol and Pregnancy

Drinking during pregnancy is extremely dangerous. Alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Cause of failure and increase the likelihood of Failure. Alcohol through the placenta and in maternal circulation of the fetus. This toxin affects the central nervous system. The embryo. Baby's liver has to try too, When the liver metabolism of alcohol fetal alcohol was not mature in the fetal circulation. Women who drink. During pregnancy, usually give birth to babies with low birth weight. Their growth can be slowed or stunted; Their brains are smaller than normal and may be delayed by Limb finger joints and facial features can be deformed heart and kidney damage can occur. Some children experience in the womb alcohol hyperactive and show a teenager learning disabilities, pregnant women drink all increase the risk of their child with a disease of infants born and alcohol also increase their chances for errors. Even moderate volume. The Alcohol can be dangerous, especially in the first. 3-4 months of pregnancy.

Signs and symptoms.

Alcoholism tend to to come with. The following signs and symptoms. Symptoms vary with the amount of alcohol and the time to be injured.

• Carving for alcohol
• Inability to control drinking behavior.
• Withdrawal symptoms such as nausea, sweating and security concerns, when you stop alcohol after a period of alcoholism.
• Tolerance (the need to increase the amount of alcohol to feel the effects).
• Social Psychology unusual career.
• Malnutrition, loss of appetite.
• Cardiovascular illness. Symptoms (of death).
• With increasing severity of the cancer (the second cause of death).
• Re-infection, such as tuberculosis. Urinary tract infection.
• Lung conditions - complicated by smoking, just as the failure of the Respiratory pneumonia.
• CNS. - Unsteady walking or posture; Poor intelligence, psychiatric symptoms (eg mood. Anxiety disorders, mental health), power outages, coma, sleeping disorders.
• Diarrhea and vomiting.
• Gastrointestinal bleeding.
• Male Sex drive - increase the ability to create in order to maintain reduced
• Women - stop loss, menstrual bleeding.
• Inflammation of the pancreas.
• Hepatitis (liver disease).
• Poor treatment of wounds.
• Accumulation of fluid in the body.
• Lack of swelling, Muscle pain, paralysis. Reflexes.
• Fractures increased.
• Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
• Hypothermia (body temperature).

  Drink moderately
  
  As a result of chronic alcohol consumption of alcoholic excess.

  Moderate to drink than the best level of drinking water should be established. Low risk alcohol problems both in terms of drinking and other It is difficult to determine quantitatively. Moderate alcohol drinking, because it may affect different individuals differently.

  Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Ontario and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse conducted or guidelines should define low risk drinking "as" drinking a healthy adult. Limit alcohol consumption. 2 or fewer standard drinks per day, with consumption Not more than 14 standard drinks per week for men and nine standard drinks for women per week.

  Most of the danger?

  People with these conditions. Or characteristics are above-average risk of developing alcoholism

• Genetically predisposed.
• Preexisting. Schizophrenia
• Start drinking at an early age.
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  What to expect of providers of Public Health.

  If you or someone you care. The symptoms were related to alcohol, you should see your doctor, you see, he or she can contribute to the diagnosis and guide you in determining which treatment or combination therapy. And the treatment options that will work best.

  Your service to make history and physical examination for specific organ damage or injury to see and evaluate if your muscles. Tenderness or weakness. Laboratory tests show all indicators. Other alcohols such as hypertension Alcoholism. Imaging techniques are used to diagnose diseases related to alcohol

Treatment options.

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Type of treatment depends on the severity of alcoholism and the resources and you have be. Both problems and medical rehabilitation. May provide treatment in a hospital or residential treatment for each patient.

Treatment -.

Understanding and treatment options will help the correct total. The treatment usually are four general steps. .

• Getting Started (evaluation and assessment of disease symptoms and decided to keep track of life issues and planning).
• Detoxification (stop).
• Active treatment. (In-patient or community treatment of patients with normal weight and want to help with alcohol and alcohol withdrawal treatment. Psychiatric Diseases in the same program. 12 steps to self-help and mutual support groups).
• to maintain sobriety and prevent relapse (patient Treatment. 12 step programs and other self-help groups for mutual support).

  Type of contract consulting and alternative medicine to teach people be to identify situations and feelings, encouraged, to make a drink and find new ways to manage without the use of alcohol also because of the participation by members of the family is important, as restoring many programs. Counseling, marriage and family therapy as part of the healing. Some programs also connect people with community resources such as legal assistance. Job training and child care. School parent.

  12 here. Questions, which is based in the selection of alcohol or drug abuse treatment or rehabilitation on Zero Substance Abuse Treatment (USA):.
  An application for insurance or your not. If they are not with you on a payment plan work or other means of support for you.

  As a second task. Or recognized rights and vocational training?

  3rd Space clean, organized and well?

  4 programs around the needs is full or not. Each (Medical: Infectious diseases, including psychological and join - The professional social mental illness; Law, etc.)?

  5 treatment rooms or not. Program is still on sexual orientation and physical disabilities, including age, gender and culture appropriate treatment Services or not.

  6 Long-term aftercare support and / or advisory support to establish and maintain?

  7 Assessment of continuity of an individual treatment plan to meet with changing requirements?

  8 program does not use strategy to attract and retain people in treatment long term. Do not increase the chances of success or not.

  9 offers counseling program. (Individual or group) and no other treatment practices. Others to increase the capacity of people working in the family / community?

  10 drug programs as part of the treatment will be offered, if this makes sense or not.

  11 help to guide the continuous monitoring of possible relapse patients อด back?

  12 services or to recommend to to ensure family members to know that support Understanding addiction and recovery every night?

  Forecasting -.
  
  Recreation alcoholism is a lifelong process, in fact, who suffered are encouraged to relax even more after the "night of alcohol" Alcohol never alcoholism. Since the Most researchers. In the field believe that since alcohol is still the potential that some of the biological and psychological state of each person who does not fully Alcoholism recover. Potential for relapse (return to sickness). As always, have to accept and to respect and statistics show that alcohol in the middle of the financial Situation and family stability. Level of 60% or more of treatment in their attempts to stop drinking for at least a few successful years, a life.

  - Drug treatment.
  
  Your provider may prescribe drugs as follows.

  • Nerve called benzodiazepines. The first help few days after the treatment to patients safely withdraw. Alcohol

  • Antipsychotic drugs. For those who do not respond. Benzodiazepines.

  • naltrexone to help drug recently approved people. Stay sober. Used in conjunction with the consultation. This drug may reduce the demand back to alcohol and to avoid heavy alcohol consumption.

  • disulfiram, the drinking of older drugs advises cause nausea and vomiting. Satisfy no reaction in the use of alcohol

  Drugs for specific organ damage or symptoms. Related to alcohol withdrawal.

  - Alternative Treatment and support.

  Comprehensive treatment for alcoholism, a wider range. Promotion and treatment options.

- Nutrition (western medicine).

Equally. Enough nutritious food. Fluctuations in blood sugar is to stimulate and alcohol. Cravings declined following tips may help the symptoms.

• simple sugar removed.

• Increase complex carbohydrates. (If possible instead of processed grain and sugar a little high with all processed grain products).

• Eat plenty of protein (if you eat meat, to control themselves cut. leanest. If you want milk. Skim or low-fat version of an alternative health. Beans, nuts and soy-protein grain. Unsaturated fatty acids and much more fiber and health. Micro-nutrients).

• increasing the essential fatty acids. (Essential fatty acids - two polyunsaturated Fatty acids. [PUFAs] that can not be mad in the body. Linoleic Acid [Omega-6 Family - for example from safflower oil. Corn, soybeans, sunflowers. Cool smooth, pumpkin, wheat germ] and alpha - linolenic acid [omega-3 family - such as linseed. (] Linseed), rapeseed (), soybeans. Need feeding and as essential Fatty acids known. Both the body is converted. Other PUFAs such as arachidonic acid or eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) PUFAs in the body is important to keep all the tissue cells. To prostaglandins. This control many body processes, including inflammation and blood clotting. The demand for fat in the diet is the fat-soluble vitamins to enable. A, D, E and K absorbed from the diet and controlling fat metabolism. Body. ).

• Reduce saturated Fats and fried foods. (Saturated fats come - usually from animal as lard, tallow and butter. Saturated fat and monounsaturated. No need for food, can they do in the human body).

• Avoid caffeine

May nutrients are added.

• Vitamin B1 (50-10 mg day - alcohol, particularly vitamin B deficiency. B1).

• Vitamin B2 (50 mg / day), B3 (25 mg / day), B5 (100 mg per day. - Clear the help of the toxins in the body, alcohol. To combat stress), B6. (50-100 mg per day), B12 (100 to 1,000 mg per day).

• Vitamin C with bioflavonoids (3,000 of 10 500 mg per day in divided amounts. -).

• Vitamin E (400 IU per day) to prevent heart

• Calcium (2,000 mg at bedtime). Significant Elements of the sedative

• Magnesium (250 - 1000 mg) to reduce withdrawal symptoms.

• selenium (200 micrograms per day). To prevent Liver

• Zinc (15 mg per day). To the metabolism.

• amino acids. : Carnitine (500 mg twice daily) to prevent liver glutamine (Day 1 ga) reduce cravings, glutathione (300 mg per day). To protect the liver and heart.

• complexity of multi-enzyme complexes (as directed on the label. Apply to food - to help the digestion). Positive enzyme protein - like on the label. The time between meals. - Required for protein absorption. : Not to complement this label).

• Chromium (250-500 mcg two days). Reduce sugar cravings and low blood sugar are related. Alcohol cravings.

Herbs -.

Generally, herbal extracts are dried (seed capsule or tablet), tea or decoctions or tinctures (alcohol extraction, unless otherwise indicated). Medicine is one teaspoon of tea cups. Water, soaked 10 minutes (roots need 20 minutes) to avoid alcoholic extracts of alcohol. TCM Herbs for the agreed amount of TCM doctor or herbs.

- Herb West

With Western herbs provide some relief.

• Milk Thistle (Milk Thistle): 80-20 mg three times daily support for the liver.

• Prim Rose Oil (Oenothera biennis): 1,000 mg three times daily used successfully with meals in Europe This supplement is a source of essential fatty acids.

• The flowers Dan Light Taraxacum (officinale): 2-8 grams of root three times a day in tea leaves or 5 ml three times a day. Alcohol solution with a drug derived from animal or help plant or chemical. Liver detoxify well with milk thistle

• skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora): for the historical hysteria, tension and nervous disorders in particular. Anxiety; cup of tea before bed can help sleep.

• valerian root (Valeriana officinalis) effective quiet sleep is the best.

• Liver dry capsules (500 mg three times daily). Protect the liver tissue.

- Herbal medicines and Food

Traditional dishes for the Garden of Eden: The Book of Genesis chapter one. Article 29, God told him that people should eat. : "Behold, I bring you all have plant that seeds that are in, makes Face face of the earth and plant seeds, fruit, and food for you.

Some cold food-toxic-defined normal (TCM) in the treatment of alcoholism: tofu, bean sprouts Mung. Green beans, bananas, wheat germ fresh Romaine lettuce, sugar cane water or sugar beet, dry rough. Pears, spinach and eaten with honey and a spoon full of Hung-reduction needs more alcohol. Soup will be useful and a good medium for tofu. Salad in green beans, romaine and spinach food

Or Kudzu Ge Gen (also known as. Pueraria lobata) is one of the plants in rapid deployment TCM Research Center for biochemical and physical and biological science. Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA many profound pharmacological effect as well. antidipsotropic (Abuse anti-alcohol), although the activity of roots and flowers. Kudzu (Ge Gen), Radix and Flos Pueraria or will be used to treat. Alcohol abuse safely and effectively in China for more than millennium. (Reduce cravings).

American Ginseng herbs. Xi Yang Shen in Mandarin (Panax quinquefolium) is in East Asia in the treatment of alcoholism estimated and may, in connection with the "Gold Seal" or used Chaparral formula in the case of very weak in the American ginseng as part of the recovery Medium with herbs in equal parts. (In fact, this formula is a hybrid between Chinese and languages.'s American Traditional).

Suma root (Andrographis paniculata Pfaffia).
Dried Ling Zhi (Reishi - Ling Jue), maitake mushroom, or.
Job's Tears Seed (Coix Lacryma - Jobi).
American / Canadian Ginseng root (Panax quinquefolium).
Astragalus Root (Astragalus membranaceus).
Because of their thermal properties. Do not use Chinese or Korean. avoid sharp Panax Ginseng Spices such as ginger. Cinnamon and black pepper.

After cleaning, cleansing heat and other symptoms. source of the excess protein can increase for 1-2 years for a liver, it is very important. or tonify the body together again, because many during the cleaning power. (Qi vanish) is TCM Clearing (clearing) a balanced herbal formula that position.

Particularly useful algae or green algae is small, in the case of a weak low (1-3 oz) of animal products have three or four times a week: sardines, mackerel, tuna or pork liver, pork and beef kidney

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Homeopathy is the medicine for the treatment of alcoholism experience is designed specifically for you. Some of the sharpest agents below.

• Arsenic Albums for anxiety and compulsiveness. With nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

Nux vomica • For frustrated and compulsiveness. With constipation, nausea and Vomiting.

• Lachesis of the desire for alcohol, headache and difficulty swallowing.

• Lycopodium for low self-esteem. Heartburn, a weak

Acute volume of 12x to a 3-5 seed. 30C every 1-4 hours, until symptoms are palliative

- Acupuncture

The alcoholic stops. Drinking often experience withdrawal symptoms to stay especially during the first week or alcohol insomnia, hallucinations eyes and ears, seizures. Acute anxiety. Rapid pulse and fever, sweat, a lot can happen. With time, but with due care for these symptoms and, possibly, alcohol-free and restart their lives. The work of recovery.

Acupuncture may help people who are reduced by drinking or eliminate and reduce withdrawal symptoms to stop alcohol abstinence. Demand of the ear and / or body can perform acupuncture. TCM treatment of alcoholism as a disease of an individual and thorough assessment the excesses and short life of the Qi () in many meridians in the case of alcohol-Qi deficiency usually during the midday lunch found, liver gallbladder are more likely to have TCM Qi Perspective than from a disease linked. Installing alcohol or other substances. The other is as follows.

• Liver stagnation. Qi (swelling, Mass, bloated abdomen and chest strength thyroid problems. Emotional repression, frustration, anger and impatience). That over time, heated liver (front red eyes and tongue, headache, insomnia to break. Constipation, aggression, violence). Liver-wind (or fluctuating movement pain. Pulsating headache, cramps, convulsions, Symptoms, manic depression). And / or absence of liver-Yin (dry eye sight weak and brittle nails, dry night blind. In general, Yin deficiency).

Kidney Stress - adrenal • lack of kidney-Yin (sound in the ear, throat dry. Backache, dizziness, weak legs, a red tongue. Uncertainty, restlessness), the kidney deficiency. (Nasty cold extremities cool again in weak and less urine. Swelling, lack of soft power to extend the tongue). And the lack real (and poor physical and / or intellectual development, not enough brains. From the early weakness, dizziness, loose teeth. Losing my head) of very high volume Drugs, he used massive amounts of real-time

• Lack of spiritual heart of the balance (Enjoy the lack of mental concentration, poor sleep habits of schizophrenic language disorders and agitation during detoxification en).

• general Qi deficiency (weakness. Light, sound wind and flat water. Substantiated tongue breathing little or no disincentives). And ischemia. (Bleaching lips. Nail bed, tongue and skin, dried shrimp, some hair dry; point in the vision. "Monthly abnormal).

One of the main objectives, the work on a stream Qi flat - let the body, mind - not for drug craved This includes the washing of the liver Water embedded in the liver qi is generally flat with unresolved chemical residues in the history of life issues. Denials have resentment and repression by alcohol been cheated?

In addition to his treatment. Needling, acupuncturists. Can other methods such as moxibustion. Herbs, nutrition and massage therapy.

Acupuncture has shown the potential for an effective treatment for drug monitoring study during two decades in China, Europe and North America. They found found that acupuncture may be necessary to reduce the amount of alcohol and the detox center studies are to reduce alcohol. Not repeat any of these interesting continue, however, too many programs on the recent reports of acupuncture to appear, people such as acupuncture, and in many cases with the program for a long time to clear. Acupuncture is a time when treatment options. This is very important because it has become critical to the success of treatment.

Track.

And according to initial medical care and / or monitoring of health care should continue. 6-12 months.

Suggestion

• Avoid alcohol. Ignored the needs of the life and health back in control of your. You can not begin to drink and is expected to again maintain the control year. Sobriety is the only alcoholic beverage that contains any you any drinking behavior can be replaced. You must choose not to drink

• Get help from persons or persons with knowledge. Abnormal about it. Anonymous alcohol worked for many years with the support of the alcoholic achieve and maintain sobriety. Al - Anon is a group that supports same time. Vides Pro for friends and family of alcohol. Support and advice of these groups are in almost all cities and communities across the country useful. View the local phone book group in your area. Or call your local Mental Health Association for information.

• If possible, ask your doctor or nutrition-oriented doctors. TCM only view your nutritional requirements.

• Go to to remove toxins from the body quickly in the water for ten days and cleaned quickly.

• Nutritious meals and fresh. Grown organic food when possible, and follow the nutritional program outlined above. Your meals should be fresh fruit and be vegetables. Cereals and legumes.

• Avoid saturated fats and fried foods put that stress on the liver. For the essential Fatty acids added to light-yellow oil and small amounts of cold pressed organic oil.

• Use with no white sugar or something to him. Alcohol have often abnormalities of glucose metabolism.

• Make lots of peace, especially in the first week. Recovery to keep your body clean and repair it.

• Avoid people and places associated with drinking water, create new friendships with people who do no drinking water or hobbies involved in sport and exercise. (For example, yoga, Tai - Chi, Qi - Gong) or self-esteem and energy store.

• Avoid stress. Maintain patience, thoughts, prayers, This is necessary for the long slow road. Recreation

• Do not use drugs. Others, with the exception of those prescribed by doctors.

• If you suspect that you might know someone abusing alcohol and supports individuals to seek professional help.

Appendix 1 - 'Alcohol worse for female brain. "

Brain images of volunteers than 150 women showed that the most dangerous and faster than men when they drink areas.

Scientists suspect that when people may have more flexibility than some women alcohol. to see German research, this evidence. University of Heidelberg published their work. In alcoholism

In the study. Half the volunteers have alcohol. All brain scans of volunteers with the beginning and end of the six-week study. People dried with alcohol problems Helped "out" in the last six weeks.

When the researchers analyzed the brain scans they found clear evidence of severe Damage the brain drink.

Drinkers have smaller brains because of the loss or deterioration than the control group.

The loss of the Brain.

Women who drink the same amount of weight lost. Brain volume as the drinker. But in a very short period of alcohol

Author Professor Karl Mann Lead. Said that even if people drink alcohol than women. And the effects of alcohol more easily.

Interference of the other alcohol together. Such as heart disease, Depression and liver disease also occurs in earlier, he said, more women than men.

women begin to drink "somewhat later in life to eat less. ... And one reason could be that women are less affected by alcohol. But there are signs of progress faster events that an addiction to alcohol and women between the onset of the effects of alcoholism This suggests that women are more vulnerable to chronic alcohol. Consumption.

For this Reason, he said it was more important than the mistakes and female alcohol treatment in early

Speakers from the Institute of Alcohol Studies. Thus, the study supports previous Findings that women experience with alcohol-related harm, before people at the same level of drinking. . These results, especially having regard to the alcohol. The consumption in UK women and the risk of alcohol that goes with it. worryingly shows that alcohol-related damage experienced by women in the United Kingdom quickly set up. In the coming years.

About the Author

Dan Micu, Diplomat Acupuncturist works full-time in his private practice "Soothe - Pain and Stress Management", North York, Ontario, Canada with a team of Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners.

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