Osteoreflectory treatment of alcohol abstinence syndrome and craving for alcohol in patients with alcoholism

Osteoreflexotherapy is used alone as a treatment used for alcohol abstinenc e syndrome and for alcohol craving by intraosseal stimulation of the proces sus styloideus ulnae of the patient's left and right hands as well as the p rocessus spinosus of the seventh cervical vertebra and the manubrium sterni osteoreceptors. This is done by intraosseal injection of 0.5 to 1.0 ml of 0.9% NaCl solution during a period of 3 to 5 seconds. Craving for alcohol a nd depressed mood, strongly manifested Alcohol Abstinence Syndrome (AAS) sy mptoms before osteoreflexotherapy, were reduced in a most convenient and fa st manner under the influence of two sessions of osteoreceptive stimulation . The withdrawal symptoms caused by alcohol abstinence decreased markedly d uring the first two hours after the first osteoreflexotherapy treatment, co ntinued to decrease in the next 24 hours and by the time the second osteore flexotherapy session was given, the withdrawal symptoms completely disappea red in 72 hours. The most slowly and least reduced AAS symptoms were asthen ia and disturbances of postular equilibrium. Based on clinical observations , it is speculated that osteoreceptive stimulations destroy ethanol depende nt functional systems and restore the neurophysiological and neuromediatori al integration of the brain in alcoholism patients. Primarily because of th ese two cited factors, the patient can be freed of the craving for alcohol for several years, and he or she also does not suffer from depression.