Alternative treatment for alcoholism

Alternative treatment for alcoholism

The simple meaning of alcoholism is “addiction to alcohol”. Alcoholism is a common chronic disorder which is responsible for enabling a person to refrain from frequent and excessive alcohol consumption due to some psychological or physical reasons.

According to WHO reports alcoholism is one of the most deadly killer disease and one of the most serious social problem for the world. As we all know that alcoholism is responsible for many social problems including accidents, poverty, anger and material unhappiness.

Some of among us believe that alcohol is a type of diet or food this is absolutely incorrect, as alcohol is neither changed nor digested in any way. Alcohol enters the alimentary canal and instantly absorbed in the bloodstream and then travels to every part of the body, adversely affecting vital organs such as brain, heart and liver.

Symptoms

Some common symptoms of alcoholism are:

- Mental disturbance

- Puffy face

- Red bloodshot eyes

- Hoarse voice

- Rapid pulse rate

- Such drinkers are suspicious, irritable and over- emotional.

- Impaired judgment

- Insomnia or disturbed sleep

- Vomiting

- Delirium

- Poor health condition due to lack of vitamins and proper nutrition

- Tremors due to vitamin deficiency

- Premature hair graying

- Impaired memory

- Poor digestion and liver functions

Alternative Treatment for alcoholism:

The most effective alternative treatment for alcoholism is to build the body’s nutritional integrity soaps in order to avoid craving for stimulants like drinks. In order to start treatment, the patient should be put on juice fasting for at least 10 days.

- Give him a glass of orange juice on every 2 hours interval from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. If you want you can also give him/her a glass of vegetables juice.

- This action will help to cleanse the body by eliminating poisonous and effete matter out from the body.

- The benefit of juice fasting is that during the juice fast, the patient will usually feel no craving for alcohol. This will give a good 10 day start towards breaking the drinking habit and would help remove not only the physical dependence but also the psychological factors.

- After completing juice fasting routine, give the patient the optimum diet of vital nutrients such as nuts, cereals, seeds, whole grains, vegetables and fruits.

- Try to avoid all types of fried foods, sugar, meat, macaroni products, chilies, pepper, mustard etc.

- The patient should eat several small meals a day rather than eating 2 large meals.

- The raw celery juice is an effective antidote to alcohol.

- Regular exercise are important for maintaining healthy condition of the appetite centre.

Yoga as an alternative treatment to alcoholism:

Useful yogasans – vajarasan, padmasan, vakrasan, yogamudra, paschimotanasan, halasan, shalabhasana.

Useful yoga kriyas – kunjal, Jalneti, kunjal.

Important Tips:

- Never try to drink alcohol on empty stomach.

- Dilute your alcohol.

- Stop drinking on ‘signal ‘ ( signals are lunch, dinner, fatigue, sex stimulation, boredom, frustration and bedtime);

- Never try to take a drink in the early morning thinking it will cure a hangover.