quit smoking in 1 treatment?

[Guest guest]

Hi folks,

 

has anyone heard of a smoking cessation treatment that involves a ONE TIME

treatment of using needles in the wrists? If so, which points are used? A

patient of mine claimed he received this treatment 5 years ago in Toronto

and hasn't had a puff since!

[Guest guest]

Ann,

 

this was a thread a ways back. You can check the archives. Here are

some notes I cut and pasted from multiple postings of others. Sorry,

no attributions but you can check the archives.

 

 

Smoking Protocol--

I use the late Dr Sohn's protocol. He used to do stop smoking

treatments in his clinic for $250. for one treatment. He taught my

husband and myself to do these treatments, and my husband actually

took over his smoking clinic for a few years.

 

tx is simple and direct. two points: sweet breath (extra point) and

ht 3.

You will want to stimulate a deep qi sensation with the needles, the

patient

should get a metalic taste in the back of their throats (that's when

you know

the tx is working)

needles are retained approximately 25-30 minutes

 

You want the patient to come in desiring a cigarette and not having

smoked

for at least two hours before tx.

that's it....it really works

(sorry no differential diagnosis for tx to stop smoking :> )

 

Ahh....now that was Dr Sohn's 'teaching' part of the protocol. I am

not sure

of the origins of this extra point --perhaps someone on the list

knows of

it's history (if it has one aside from Dr Sohn's useage)

the point is between the lung and large intestine meridians proximal

to Lg

#7. There is a very distinct 'finger feel' for practitioners

that 'feel'

points. (areas of low electrical resistance just feel differently)

The point

has a tendency to be unique on every individual so it is impossible

to say how

many tsun from the wrist. sorry. Dr Sohn would test us repeatedly to

insure

that we could locate this point before being let loose on his

patients.

 

Lg= Lung

LI= Large Intestine

 

also Diane- mentioned using LI#5. Dr Sohn's point would be closer in

anatomical location to LI#6 since it is proximal to Lg #7......

let me know what happens with your tx.

 

We also use patient education....we give each patient a picture of

healthy

lungs and lungs polluted by smoking- we ask that the patient wraps

this picture

around their cigarette box as a reminder. For two pack a day or more

smokers-

we start by making them smoke 'consciously'. meaning that they can do

nothing except smoke a cig when they decide to lite up: no phone

conversations,

no

reading, no drinking their favorite beverage...nothing ...all

attention on the

cigarette....focus on the way it tastes, feels, etc. We request that

if they

are not enjoying the cigarette that they put it out. In that manner,

by the

time they come for the actual treatment they have already brought

their

awareness to the process.

 

robbee

 

We were taught to find the sweets point by going approximately half-

way

between Lung 7 and LI 5. It sounds like that is about the same

location as

Robbee

is describing.

Diane Bryson

 

I think another name for the sweet point is Tim Mee- which is located

at the

level of Lung 7, proximal to L.I. 5 in a depression between the

tendons that

make up the anatomical snuffbox.

 

May

 

 

 

Chinese Medicine , Ann Zee

<dr.annzee@s...> wrote:

> Hi folks,

>

> has anyone heard of a smoking cessation treatment that involves a

ONE TIME

> treatment of using needles in the wrists? If so, which points are

used? A

> patient of mine claimed he received this treatment 5 years ago in

Toronto

> and hasn't had a puff since!