Herbs to quit Smoking!

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Herbs to Quit Smoking Tobacco

Try buying licorice sticks to chew on.  They are sweet, taste good and give your mouth and fingers something to do.   Licorice is included in most Chinese herb combinations to balance the other herbs and to promote vitality. It is a source of magnesium, silicon and thiamine  As well, it is used to relieve chest congestion, bronchitis and asthma.

King Tut and other rulers were buried with licorice roots in order to have their sweets for the next world.



Spirulina and chlorella  are good for detoxification and to maintain energy. 


Other herbs to smoke in place of tobacco:

At first, a thick bodied flavorful smoke with Lobelia and calming herbs is indicated. After the physical withdrawal is finished with, drop the Lobelia smoke and use a calming smoke with lots of astringent herbs for a heavy "Tobacco" smoke. In reality, no herbal smoking mixture tastes as "thick" as Tobacco. Be sure to add some Mullein and possibly some expectorants to aid in the cleansing process. Finally, you may wish to cut the astringents and just go with the very light Mullein alone. Mullein is so light it will feel as you aren't really smoking anything, and you will eventually lose interest in it. This regimen is an example, and can be modified to your own personal needs.


Other herbs, taken as tea or tincture, may be helpful during the withdrawal process. A liver stimulant like Oregon Grape Root or Goldenseal may help your body remove the nicotine quicker. This won't make the withdrawal symptoms easier, but it will just speed it up. Salicylate herbs, like Willow and Oak, can help with headaches. Calming herbs like Skullcap, Valerian, and Parrot's Beak, are definitely indicated. After the physical addiction is broken, it's up to you to break the psychological addiction.

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Lobelia is another example of a strong herb whose dosage can be regulated by smoking. It is a very strong muscle relaxant and tranquilizer that should not be mixed with any other pharmaceutical tranquilizers or alcohol. It also is an expectorant. As an added bonus it is an alterative that increases your body's own natural defense mechanisms. All this makes it ideal as an herb to stop smoking with.

Your body sees Lobelia's main ingredient, lobeline, as nicotine. Certain receptors in your body are waiting to be filled with nicotine and so you feel nicotine fits. Lobeline is the same shape as nicotine and fits into these receptor sites, fooling your body into thinking you've been smoking Tobacco. Lobeline, however, is not addictive when used properly for the short term. The prescription chewing gums that doctors prescribe to quit smoking have lobeline as the main ingredient.


Smoking Mixture Recipes


Phase 1

Rubbed Mullein leaf as a base
Kinnikinnik leaf, for body, finely broken
Manzanita leaf, for added body, finely broken
Skullcap Leaf, for vitally needed calming effect
Lobelia, as needed for lobeline
Mint, small amounts for menthol cigarette smokers

Phase 2

Stop adding Lobelia
Add Coltsfoot, as needed, not so strong as to cause coughing fits
Increase the Mullein Leaf

Continue to add more Mullein until

Phase 3,

Mullein alone.

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Mimosa tea is another important herb. This evergreen shrub is found in north eastern Brazil and southern Mexico. The root bark of this plant is used to prepare a psychoactive sacramental beverage.  A strong cup of mimosa tea can boost your mood and calm your nerves, in case you are suffering from Nicotine withdrawal symptoms.  The herb is also used as an anti-depressant

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 In Ayurvedic medicine, common garden variety oats (but not oat straw), is used to treat opium withdrawal. The herbalist Anand, using a tincture (an alcoholic extract of the herb), applied this same reasoning to nicotine withdrawal, with significant results.

Use the following formula for those trying to stop smoking.

In a 50ml bottle, mix the following herbal tinctures:

    * 15ml green oats
    * 10ml white horehound
    * 10ml mullein
    * 5ml golden seal
    * 10ml peppermint



Take 6 drops on the tongue whenever the craving to have a cigarette is felt.

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West Lake Stop Smoking Tea

Cigarettes are smoked to feel refreshed-invigorated or calmed-and it is difficult to stop smoking because of the urge to attain the mental and physical state that occurs during and right after smoking. If, instead of smoking at such times, one takes the West Lake Tea, then the desire to smoke will fade, and one will smoke less and less. Even the seeming good taste of smoking will no longer be there. Eventually, West Lake tea can be replaced by any desired green tea as a way of maintaining a sense of equilibrium rather than returning to smoking.

West Lake Stop Smoking Tea is a product of Zhejiang Province. In that province is the beautiful city of Hangzhou, famous for the West Lake. Nearby, is Tian Mu Mountain, which is well-known for its tea plants, where the delicate "cloud and fog" (yunwu) tea is grown (see the next page for more on West Lake, Tian Mu Mountain, and its tea). The tea gets this name (often shortened to just "fog tea") because of the weather conditions that are ideal for growing fine tea. This unique green tea from Tian Mu mountain is the foundation of West Lake Stop Smoking Tea.

Added t0 the tea leaves is a collection of herb extracts, based on a formula that had been used more than a century ago to help wean Chinese nobility from opium addiction, a common problem during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Among the main ingredients of this formula are ginseng leaves, lotus seeds, asparagus roots, and betel nuts. The complete formula remains a secret. The principles of therapy, however, are well established. The purpose of the herbal ingredients is to nourish and strengthen the internal organs so that there is a greater sense of stability and control.

The tea bags are used one bag per cup. The tea may be taken as often as needed, typically 3 times per day (one cup each time) to prevent the urge to smoke; but also any time that this urge is strong. A stop-smoking endeavor should only take a few days, not more than 10 days in most cases, which may require using about 3-4 boxes of the tea (each box contains 8 tea bags). Of course, success in this endeavor will also require a strong desire to succeed in giving up the smoking habit. See an acupuncturist about utilizing daily acupuncture and additional herbal materials to improve chances of success and speed the process of withdrawal from nicotine addiction.

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Although it is also known that herbs, natural supplements and aromatherapy help to calm nerves, reduce cravings, and empower smokers with the confidence to live smoke-free by using completely natural and safe alternatives for smoke away.

One of those herbs to quit smoking is the Argemone Mexicana, a brightly yellow flowering poppy plant from Mexico growing wild in sunny, open places. Taking a cup of tea made from the leaves of this medicinal herb will help you to stop smoking cigarettes.

This plant may be grown inside or outside your home because it simply needs a sunny and warm place. If you get a container to put together some sand and small stones into the soil, the plant grows to about 50cm and flowers throughout the year. Seeds to grow this plant are available at many garden supply stores.

If cutting the lower leafs of Argemone Mexicana for tea, new branches are induced by the additional light sprout from the stem so this way will have a continuous supply of tea to follow an efficient at home treatment to quit smoking, with the only advise to dry the leafs before using them as tea.

Lobelia is another beautiful herb that has been in use for more than 100 years, both internally and externally for its medicinal properties. Native to North America, it is also known as Indian tobacco or puke weed. Lobelia has a substance called lobeline, with similar relaxing properties as nicotine.

Smoker's body does not feel the difference in the belief it is getting nicotine when in fact it is not. Lobelia is also a cleansing herb, and may be beneficial to clear some of the effects of smoking on the organism, and it is also an expectorant.

Lobelia may increases the body's natural defense mechanisms, but it is also a very strong muscle relaxant and tranquilizer and it should not be mixed with alcohol or any other pharmaceutical tranquilizers. Most chewing gums prescribed by doctors to quit smoking have lobeline as the main ingredient.

However, in the United States Lobelia is illegal to sell for internal consumption because it's tranquilizing properties and the possibilities of poisoning. A Lobelia cigarette can make people feel dizzy; light headed.  (Recent reading seems to show that the Lobelia ban has now been lifted) 

Some other herbs are safer to use and commonly seen as cooking or drinking herbs such as Peppermint, also known as Menthe Haplocalyx Briq, Herba Menthae, Menthe, Bo-He or Po-Ho. To stop smoking, both leaves and the whole herb are used for its pungent and cool, non-toxic properties.

Mostly found in Chinese herbal formulas, Peppermint it is also used for common cold and headache caused by heat, fullness sensation in the chest and it is the main ingredient of Quit smoking formulas of Yin-Qiao Wan, Gan Mao Ling and others using the Herb's essential oils

Cinnamon Bark is another herb widely used in Chinese Herbal Medicine for the treatment to quit smoking. Also known as Cinnamomum Cassia Presl., Cortex Cinnamomi, Rou Gui, Gui Pi or Jou-Kuei, twig or ramous of Cinnamon Bark are used in herbal cigarettes and as one of the ingredients in herbal aroma inhalers for the same purpose of stop smoking. Cinnamon is as safe as common spicy food, easily found in practically all grocery stores and supermarket.