Home Remedies to Quit Alcohol Addiction, Smoking and Tobacco Chewing

Bad Effects of Smoking/Tobacco Chewing
Patients who tend to smoke a lot or take a lot of tobacco are prone to:
Cardiovascular problems like ischaemic Heart Disease.
Respiratory troubles like Chronic Bronchitis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Vascular disease like Thromboangiitis Obliterans.
Dental staining and decay.
Oral and Bronchogenic Carcinoma.
Impotency.

Bad Effects of Alcohol
lt corrodes the linings of the liver, intestines and stomach.
It weakens the memory, lowers the intellectual and reasoning powers.
It reduces the ability to do ordinary work and decreases muscular power, depressing the heart and circulation.
Prolonged alcohol intake also causes impotency in a few cases.

Home Remedies to be taken to Overcome Alcohol Addiction
Angelica herb — This herb is taken in the form of tea or in tincture form, thrice daily, after meals. This helps reduce craving for alcohol.
Apple — Have two to three apples a day to reduce the craving for wine and other intoxicating liquors. It is also useful to reduce any intoxicated feeling caused by alcoholic beverages.
Date  — The person should drink half a glass of water in which four to five dates have been crushed. Do this twice daily for a few months.
Fruit juice — The best drink as a substitute for alcohol is a glass of fresh fruit juice. The patient or the alcoholic should drink lots of juices and eat a candy or other snacks whenever he has a craving for alcohol.
Grapes — Grapes contain the purest form of alcohol and are a healthy substitute for alcohol. Alcoholics should take fresh grapes or grape juice at five-hourly interval, i.e. three times a day.Eating a few raisins daily for a few months also helps in reducing the craving for alcohol.
Milk — Drink two large cups of milk daily.
Orange — Eating two to three oranges or drinking one glass of orange juice just before breakfast helps to lessen the craving for alcohol.
Water and alcohol — Add eight parts of pure water to one part of alcohol and drink it in gulps. Do not sip it. Then drink two or more glasses of water after it. if you tend to vomit, it is excellent. This will help the alcoholic to break the habit of drinking.

Ways to Overcome The Effects of  Drunkenness
To reduce the toxic effects of alcohol, a tablespoonful of honey is given to the patient thrice daily.
Drink cold water frequently.
Application of a cloth dipped in cold water around the head, abdomen and loins reduces the effects of intoxication.
Three teaspoonfuls of juice of leaves of bitter gourd (karela) should be mixed with a glass of buttermilk and taken every morning for a month.This is an effective antidote for alcoholic intoxication.
Have two to three apples to overcome the complications due to chronic alcoholism.
Half a glass of juice of raw celery leaves mixed with an equal quantity of water should be taken once daily, for a month. This acts as an effective antidote to alcohol intoxication and helps reduce damage done by alcohol to liver and pancreas.
In cases of vomiting and retching following alcohol intake, give hot black coffee to the person as much as he can take.

Homeopathic Remedies to Overcome Alcohol Addiction
Quercus Gland Spiritus mother tincture, ten drops in two tablespoonfuls of water, taken thrice daily for a few months, is a useful remedy to antidote the effects of alcohol and also helps reduce the craving for alcohol.
In cases of nervous collapse, sleeplessness, debility and sinking sensation with a craving for alcohol in chronic alcoholics, Avena Sativa mother tincture, five drops mixed in half a cup of water, taken thrice daily, is useful.
For people who crave for alcohol, where even water needs to be mixed with alcohol and then taken, with extreme debility, relaxed feeling in the stomach and tremors, Sulphuric Acid mother tincture, ten to fifteen drops either diluted in a glass of water or directly poured in the bottle of alcohol, helps subdue the craving for liquor.
Angellica mother tincture, five drops in one teaspoonful of water, taken thrice daily, produces disgust for liquor and is also useful for dyspepsia and headaches of alcoholics.
Sulphur, four pills taken in water every morning for a week, reduces the desire for alcohol.
In cases where the desire abates and then returns, Nux Vomica 30 C, four pills thrice daily, is useful.
Cinchona Rubrum 3X, four pills taken thrice daily, helps reduce the craving for alcohol.

Homeopathic Remedies to Overcome Drunkenness Effects
ln cases of pale face, headache, dry and parched mouth and tongue with nausea and vomiting in the morning on waking with tremulousness after total abstinence from alcohol, give Nux Vomica 30C, four pills every four hourly. People who need this remedy are irritable, zealous and hypersensitive and who are overindulgent in wine, women, stimulants and rich food.
If the above does not help and the person needs to be fanned to feel better, give Carbo Veg 200 C, four pills thrice daily.
For prostration and feeble digestion of alcoholics, Capsicum 30 C, four pills thrice daily is useful.
ln cases of headaches on waking in the morning after getting drunk at night, give Coffea 30C, four pills four hourly till he feels better.
In cases of delirium tremens of alcoholics, where they get imaginary visions (visions of animals, monsters, strange human faces, etc.); hears imaginary voices (as if someone is scolding him or calling out to him); with fits of raging and raving and violent tendencies, convulsions, etc., give Arsenic Album, Opium, Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Veratrum Album or Stramonium according to the indications.

Remedies to Quit Smoking and Tobacco Chewing
Buttermilk — Buttermilk is an excellent remedy to curb the desire to smoke or take tobacco. Add one teaspoonful of lemon juice, a pinch of asafoetida (hing) and a few curry leaves in the buttermilk, but do not add salt. Consume this twice daily along with the curry leaves for at least for two months.
in cases where a person finds it difficult to stop smoking or stop taking tobacco, he should switch over to a brand that is lower in nicotine content than what he is currently having. It should be noted that he should not increase the number of cigarettes or inhale the smoke too deeply.
After following the above first step, ask the person to smoke only half a cigarette at a time and thus gradually reduce the amount of nicotine going into his body.
In cases where the person smokes or takes tobacco due to severe stress and tension, ask him to get engaged in activities like yoga, exercising, swimming, taking a warm bath, etc. which will relax him in a much more safe and effective way.
lt is important to see that the patient does not start drinking alcohol or start taking too much of other stimulants like tea, coffee, etc. in an endeavor to quit smoking and having tobacco.
A person who is abstaining from smoking and tobacco, dryness of the mouth with a parched feeling inside is the most common complaint. In such cases the person should be advised to drink cold water or cold drinks at frequent intervals.

Homeopathic Remedies to Quit Smoking & Tobacco Chewing

Daphne indica 30C, four pills taken thrice daily is useful to curb the craving for tobacco and to stop smoking.
To break the tobacco habit in irritable, zealous, hypersensitive people with complaints of an upset stomach, headache or habitual constipation, Nux Vomica 30C, four pills should be taken every four hourly.
Craving for tobacco in people who are sensitive, touchy and who feel offended very easily are benefited by taking Staphysagria 30C, four pills taken twice daily.
For depression and insomnia in chronic smokers, Plantago Major mother tincture, ten drops in half a cup of water thrice daily is useful.
ln dyspeptic troubles of the aged after too much smoking Abies Nigra 30C, four pills thrice daily is useful.
People who are extremely sensitive to cold weather, who are restless mentally and physically and who have a strong desire for cold drinks with extreme prostration, Arsenic Album 30 C, four pills taken every four hourly is useful.
For nervous affections (paralysis of various groups of muscles and muscular weakness) with extreme prostration, drowsiness, dullness and trembling, Gelsemium 30C, four pills taken thrice daily is useful.
Cuprum Metallicum 30C, four pills taken thrice daily is another useful remedy to overcome the habit of smoking.
For tobacco dyspepsia in chilly people with intense nausea in the morning before eating, Sepia 30C, four pills taken thrice daily is effective.
For nervousness and weakness of the stomach resulting from immoderate smoking, Cocculus indicus 30C, four pills taken thrice daily is effective.




Source : Nature’s Healing Power through Food