Auricular acupuncture has successfully been used within the county of Hampshire by the Winchester drug problem team, Highclere detoxification centre and Face to Face Dasein. All practitioners were fully trained and in some cases electro stimulation was used over a period of five years. Other treatments are also used to compliment the acupuncture. Moxibustion involves stimulating acupuncture points with heat. Electrostimulation enhances the effect of the needles and can be used to either stimulate or sedate.
Different frequencies produce different physiological responses in the body.
My personal view of myself now is completely different being more assertive, confident, less anxious, determined to do something positive with one's life. The other thing I find with seeing my acupuncturist is I see her as my therapist as well. In 1973 Wen and Teo reported that a new approach to relieving the drug withdrawal syndrome and counteracting drug addiction itself, had been used in the Tung Wah and Kwong Wah Hospital in Hong Kong - 'By means of acupuncture with electrical stimulation, a form of treatment which had not been attempted before. The technique used involved needling the patients' ears on each side, subcutaneously for half a centimetre in the middle of the cavum conchae. The acupuncture point used is the 'lung' point on the ear.