NAETandALLERGIES

Most notions of allergy suffering are defined by common everyday usage of the term. Pollen, grass and dust can affect the eyes, nose and throat; dairy, eggs and wheat can cause gastro-intestinal pain. Some allergens, through repeated exposure to the body, cause the production of immunoglobulins that can be accounted for in various allergy tests. However, many patients suffer significant allergic symptoms, to both food and environmental stimulants, and have no “allergies” according to a traditional test.

In these patients, allergens may not result in immunoglobulin production, but may cause a reaction in an entirely different way. In acupuncture theory, the presence of the allergen, felt as a bioelectric frequency, unique to the allergen, causes a change in flow of energy through the acupuncture meridians. This occurs because the system has been programmed by repeated exposure to send the signal to the body that an allergen is present.

Current theories account for this development as an indiscriminant defensive response on the part of an overloaded autonomic nervous system. The stress affecting the “system” may be of physical, mental/emotional, chemical or environmental origin, and may have no direct relationship to the allergen. Furthermore, the response of the allergen/meridian alarm response to a specific allergen may be different from one person to another. This means that “allergies” may include a wide variety of responses to individual substances. Wheat allergies are known to affect the large intestine, but also the lungs, skin, sinuses and nervous system as well as the stomach and musculo-skeletal system.

Allergic reactions may alter the metabolism by preventing the body from absorbing and metabolizing correctly. Thus, an allergy to a “b” vitamin can produce little immediate reaction, but if severe enough, may result in poor absorption. The only symptom may be a deficiency of this vitamin, which is rarely connected to primary allergic sensitivity. This misconception may be due to the variety of sensitivity reactions within the meridian system which run from hypo-sensitive (lowered) to hyper-sensitive (elevated).

NAET testing and treatment permit the balancing of the system towards the allergen, regardless of the effect on the body, rather than trying to change the body’s suffering without regard to the cause.