Acupuncture and chronic “addictive” behaviors
Addiction is a very common, chronic health and behavioral disorder. Main characteristics of the disorder is that involves compulsive seeking and taking of a substance or performing of an activity despite negative or harmful consequences for health and everyday life. There are many reasons why addictions begin but there is a common point: all types of addictions have the purpose to change a person’s emotional state. Addiction is a treatable condition.
There are many services, treatments and care centres that help with counselling and managing withdrawal. Acupuncture has been used and helped thousands of addictive patients worldwide. We will present the different types of acupuncture that can be used in order to help people with different types of addictions.
Yamamura System of Acupuncture to treat Zang Fu chronicdiseases ― experience of Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
WHO defines chronic diseases as cardiovascular diseases (cerebrovascular, ischemic), neoplasms, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes mellitus.
Integrative medicine and Traditional Chinese medicine, within the scope ofacupuncture, can be used to treat chronic conditions, from primary care to tertiary care.
The experience of the Department of Medical Acupuncture from FederalUniversity of São Paulo (UNIFESP) using the Microsystems developed by Prof. Ysao Yamamura proved to be effective and safe for approaching chronic patients.
Understanding illness through the Santai Theory (Heaven-Earth-Man) alsoensures an integrated approach to the patient and a complete diagnosis, bringing immediate and lasting results.