Fwd: Opioid Addiction & Chinese Medicine

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" Li Xi-ru, in Shen Jing Jing Shen Yi Bing Gu Qin Xiao Fang (Ancient & Modern

Effective Formulas for Neurologic & Psychiatric Disease) published by

Science & Technology Press, Beijing, 1998, includes a chapter on " Addiction

to Opioid Substances. " According to Li, opioids' flavor is sour and

astringent, their qi is aromatic, and their nature is warm and drying. It

has also been long understood in Chinese medicine that opioids have toxins.

Although opioids enter all 12 channels and thus can stop pain anywhere in

the body, they especially enter the kidneys, large intestine, and lungs

where they exert their damaging effects. After entering the body, they

necessarily consume and scatter the righteous qi. If consumption endures,

the yang qi must become vacuous and the five viscera must necessarily be

affected by the heat of opioids' warming and shining. Thus it is said, " This

medicinal's nature is categorized as pure yang; it likes to move and it

likes to arouse. " "

 

http://chinesemedicalpsychiatry.com/articles/article_heroin.html

 

 

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