Conventional allergy treatment consists of two main
approaches: symptom suppression and desensitization.
Symptom suppression uses various medications to reduce the
release of and/or the effects of circulating immune
chemicals like histamine. Reduction of the amounts or
effects of these chemicals reduces the severity of the
body's allergic reaction and things like congestion,
irritated eyes, and skin reactions diminish. In severe
allergies, steroids like cortisone may be used to
drastically suppress the body's inflammatory immune
response.
The other common approach to allergy treatment is
desensitization, usually in the form of allergy shots.
Allergy shots deliver small amounts of the person's
allergens into the body on a regular basis. The concept
here is that over time the body will grow accustomed to the
allergen and stop reacting as strongly to it. Basically,
the idea is that the body will get "tired" of producing an
immune response to the allergen if it encounters it often
enough. Allergy shots are effective at eliminating
allergies in many cases, but it is a slow process. There
is a new way of desensitizing the body to allergens that is
much faster and does not require injections, as we'll
discuss shortly.
Before I go into this new kind of allergy treatment, you'll
need to have some background information. This treatment
is based on the energy field of the human body and it uses
a technique called muscle testing to evaluate fluctuations
in that energy field. Acupuncture is a system of healing
that has been around thousands of years. It is based on
the flow and interaction of subtle forms of energy in the
body. While this is still a new concept in Western
medicine, energy healing is widely accepted in many parts
of the world. Medical doctors often dismiss outright the
concept of an energy field around the body, yet the
existence of this field is easily demonstrated, as anyone
who is "muscle-tested" will experience.
You may have heard of homeopathy. Like acupuncture, it too
is based on energy fields, both in the body, as well as in
substances and organisms that can interact with the body.
In essence, homeopathic remedies are energy "signatures" of
substances – not the actual substances themselves.
Just as you can store electronic information on a computer
disc, energy signatures can be imprinted on purified water
and other substances. Those stored energy signatures can
then be used to treat the body.
As mentioned above, the existence of the human energy field
is easily demonstrated. One of the simplest and yet most
effective means of assessing the flow of energy around and
within the body is something called muscle testing. Every
muscle in your body is controlled by nerves, which transmit
electrical signals. If the body's energy field is
disrupted, the electrical signals of the nerves are
interfered with, and so the muscles cannot function at full
capacity. It's sort of like a light on a dimmer switch.
When the power to the light is flowing at full capacity,
the light is bright. When the flow of electricity is
interfered with (by means of the components of the dimmer
switch), the light dims. If the nerve signals to your
muscles are "dimmed", the muscle appears weak. In muscle
testing, we assess energy pathways by touching points on
the body or by contacting the body with a substance to
check the body's reactivity to it. Although any muscle in
the body can be used for testing, one of the most popular
tests uses the deltoid muscles. Essentially, the person
being tested holds his or her arm straight out to the side
at shoulder level and the tester pushes down on the arm at
the wrist or forearm. When an energy reaction occurs, the
person being tested will be unable to resist the downward
push from the tester where they had been able to easily
resist before.
There are many critics of muscle testing who claim that it
is a hoax. I used to think that myself. Certainly there
are ways to "cheat" the test to make it show what you want
it to show. All of these tricks are easily detectable if
you pay attention to what's happening. Among the more
common tricks to produce a weak response when the tester
wants it are: the tester pushes harder or faster, the
tester lifts up on the arm (triggering muscle relaxation)
prior to pushing down, or the tester changes the angle, or
shifts the leverage of the push. I myself have witnessed a
lot of muscle testing where the outcome was controlled by
the tester. Such experiences led me to conclude that
muscle testing was a bunch of garbage. A few years ago, I
attended a seminar that changed my mind. I came to
understand the proper way to do muscle testing. After
that, I came to find that muscle testing was a valuable
tool for assessing the body.
Allergy and Sensitivity Elimination and Reprogramming
Technique (ASERT)is the newest method of dealing with
allergy problems in the body. This is a method that uses
muscle testing and homeopathic substances to evaluate the
body and then uses a form of acupuncture point stimulation
to reduce the body's sensitivities to allergens. This is a
relatively new technique that is an updated version of an
older, but more widely-used method called NAET (Nambudripad
Allergy Ellimination Technique).
NAET was discovered accidentally by an acupuncturist and
chiropractor named Devi Nambudripad. She herself suffered
from numerous allergies and food sensitivities and she had
a very restrictive diet because of her multiple food
sensitivities. The story goes that one day she was fixing
food for her husband and absent-mindedly ate a piece of
carrot, which she was highly allergic to. Immediately, she
started to have an allergic reaction and she decided to
ride it out using some acupuncture to help her through it
more easily. She placed acupuncture needles to stimulate
all of the energy channels in the body and laid down to
rest. When she awoke, she felt unusually good and noticed
that in her haste, she had not washer her hands and still
had some carrot on her skin. On a hunch, she ate a bite of
carrot and found she did not react to it as before. She
then tried using the same procedure for other foods she was
allergic to and discovered that the acupuncture stimulation
eliminated those reactions as well. From there the method
has grown and there are various modifications and offshoots
of it, including ASERT, the technique I use.
With ASERT, I use muscle testing to test for reactions to
various allergens and then desensitize the body to any
allergens I find using laser acupuncture. The laser is
particularly good for this technique because it is
completely noninvasive and painless and can go right
through most clothing, negating the need for the patient to
disrobe. In using this technique the last few years, I
have discovered some additional tricks to make it even more
effective. For most cases, significant reduction in all
types of allergies and sensitivities can be achieved in 1
to 10 visits. This treatment is long lasting (it usually
"holds" for at least several months) and is often
permanent. A few interfering factors can come into play
with the effects of treatment, such as heavy metal toxicity
or particularly heavy exposure to the desensitized
allergens, but these are rare.
Both ASERT and NAET are remarkably effective, if a bit hard
to believe at first. They are gaining popularity and
practitioners of these techniques can usually be located in
most major cities.
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Dr. George Best has been a holistic healthcare practitioner
in San Antonio, Texas since 1991. For more information
about natural allergy elimination, visit
http://www.youniquehealthcare.com , or email to
info@youniquehealthcare.com.
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