Consumed in large quantities, alcohol is a poison which destroys brain cells, and can adversely affect every organ in the body. Social drinking can turn into physical dependence on alcohol and alcoholism so gradually that family and friends may have difficulty in persuading the alcoholic that he or she has a problem.

Once the addiction develops, alcoholism can make the body so dependent on alcohol that it is unable to function without it. Symptoms of alcoholism include depression, memory blackouts and hallucinations.

The diagnosis in Chinese Medicine is that excessive alcohol consumption causes too much heat in the body, damaging the liver and stomach. For alcoholism, a Chinese Medicine practitioner will use herbs to take the heat out of the liver and the blood. In mild cases, strong green tea is used as a cooling agent.

A Chinese Medicine practitioner will treat chronic alcoholism with kudzu vine or watermelon to detoxify the blood. Treatment to alleviate the physical damage will help, but alcoholism usually has a psychological cause and the patient would be advised to seek counseling and to join a self-help group.

Stop Smoking

Smoking not only costs money, it is anti-social and affects your health seriously. A smoker is easily prone to catching sore throats, skin rashes, chest infection, asthma, stress, migraine and many more illness. When you are pregnant and you risk smoking, it can easily harm your baby and there is a higher risk that your baby will be born premature or underweight.

Even if you are really determined to stop, you may have found that willpower alone is not enough. All over the world people have tried different methods to stop smoking. Nicotine Patches, Hypnosis, sometimes they work, very often they don't.

Acupuncture is a tried and tested, proven way of providing helps to stop smoking. Acupuncture can re-balance the vital energy of the body - the Qi which flows continuously around the meridian system, which is an energetic network of channels that not only connects the acupuncture points to each other but also directly influences the functioning of the internal organs and other controlling systems of the body.

In the treatment of stop smoking, we usually choose 6-7 points which connect to the lungs to re-balance its functions to stop the craving for Nicotine.

Our Practitioner

Dr Huang MD MATCM

West Hull Branch

374 Hessle Road

Hull, HU3 3SD

Tel: 01482 218866

East Hull Branch

319 Holderness Road

Hull, HU8 8SH

Tel: 01482 217771