Allergies Online

Oak allergy sufferers who live in South Texas are well aware of thelarge quantities of pollen that oaks produce and the symptoms thatresult. The pollen pods, which resemble little fuzzy worms, release thepollen into the air to be carried by the wind and the pods accumulateon the ground.

During the oak pollen season, the effects of the pollen are everywhere,with cars and windows covered with the orange-brown film the pollencreates. Even pavement where the spent pollen pods accumulate will getstained brown. Those suffering from oak pollen allergies can experiencesevere reactions. Massive sinus drainage, watery eyes, sneezing, and/orcoughing will develop that can defy almost any allergy treatmentavailable, at least until the oak pollen subsides.

Severe oak allergy reactions can motivate sufferers to turn to everyremedy they can think of, including drastic measures like sterodinjections. Some will decide to handle the situation once and for allby starting allergy shots, even though the needles are less thanpleasant, without realizing that it often takes years to finally getresults.

Many oak allergy sufferers will seek out natural relief from treatmentslike nutritional supplements, herbal remedies, homeopathy and/oracupuncture, and all of these forms of treatment will provide somedegree of temporary relief for the majority of people. But what ifthere was a way to do more than just suppress allergy symptoms?

But what if there was another way to deal with allergies that gets ridof the problem long-term as seen with allergy shots, but gets resultsin days and doesn’t require getting stuck with needles repeatedly?There is in fact a way to accomplish this using "energy medicine"methods.

The most widely-practiced of these natural allergy relief methods isNAET, which stands for Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Technique. Dr.Devi Nambudripad is a chiropractor and acupuncturist from Californiawho accidentally discovered how stimulating specific acupuncturemeridians while being exposed to the allergens one reacts to can resetthe body so that it no longer reacts to those allergens.

Since NAET was first developed in the 1980’s, other similar techniqueshave been developed that are more streamlined, but NAET is still themost popular. All energy-basd allergy elimination techniques aredefinitely strange and can seem like they are too good to be true, butin eight years of practicing Allergy and Sensitivity Elimination andReprogramming Technique (ASERT), a newer, more efficient version ofallergy elimination based on the underlyng principles of NAET, I havefound it to be extremely effective on even the most severe and chronicof allergy sufferers.

Because these techniques are so strange and because I practice in SanAntonio, an area where a high percentage of the population is stillextremely skeptical of alternative medicine, I do the allergydesensitization on people and let them experience the results beforethey pay me. I use the honor system with regards to the allergyelimination procedure I use in my office - I do the full allergyelimination procedure and patients pay me after the fact when they aresatisfied that the treatment was effective for them. The vast majoritysend me checks or call me with a credit card number, which I thik is adramatic testament to the effectiveness of this technique.

The great part about these techniques is that the results occurquickly. In the case of seasonal allergies like those to oak pollen,symptoms may be severe for weeks at a time, so allergy sufferers seekout some form of natural allergy relief that takes effect quickly,rather than a treatment approach like allergy shots that can take yearsto be effective, and rather than treatments that have potentiallyserious side-effects such as steroid drugs. Energy-based allergyelimination provides relief within a day or two and does so without therisk of side-effects.

Better yet, the effects of energy-based allergy elimination last forseveral months to several years because these techniques actually getrid of the allergies, not just suppress allergy symptoms andinflammation. So, oak allergy sufferers can usually go through multipleoak seasons without any problems without ongoing treatment after goingthrough the allergy desensitization.

Although NAET practitioners often claim that the effects of NAET arepermanent, which they may be in some cases, it has been my experiencethat allergies can re-develop, particularly after somone is sick with acold or flu, or suffers a major trauma during a high pollen season. Itappears that the body may develop allergies in a "guilt by association"manner in which an activation of the body’s immune system andinflammatory response from something other than pollen may becomeassociated with the presence of a given allergen, thus triggering areaction to the allergen. In other words, if you catch the flu during atime when oak pollen is high, it is not unusual to develop oakallergies.

In any case, energy-based allergy desensitization is very much forreal, and it offers fast, effective natural allergy relief for oakpollen allergies, as well as any other type of allergy (includingairborne allergens, foods, and skin-contact allergies).