Winter in San Antonio and the rest of the South Texas area
brings the dreaded mountain cedar allergy season. Mountain
cedar allergy, or "cedar fever" as it is sometimes known,
is a hard thing to live with in South Texas given the
area's high density of the trees and the breezy conditions
common to the winter months that helps stir the pollen into
the air.
For allergy sufferers in the San Antonio area, mountain
cedar is one of the worst pollens by far, primarily because
the pollen counts can go extremely high and remain so for
many days at a time. The pollen concentrations sometimes
go so high that they can sometimes reach the status of an
air pollutant and actually produce a slightly hazy look to
the air (or is that just blurry vision from the watery
eyes?).
Many treatments are tried at this time of year to try to
reduce the allergic reaction even just a little bit, but
the pollen often wins out. Even prescription medications
and inhalers may not be a match for the clouds of pollen.
Fortunately, there is a new approach to this problem.
Energy medicine techniques, based on the thousand-year-old
healing traditions of acupuncture (althought the new
methods do not require needles and are totally painless),
are now available that can effectively "desensitize"
allergy sufferers to many allergens, including mountain
cedar pollen. These strange-looking methods take effect
quickly - within 24 hours and can eliminate mountain cedar
allergies for the remaining months of the cedar fever
season, and often for future seasons for years to come.
The most popular of these techniques is known as NAET
(Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique), named after
acupuncturist and chiropractor, Dr. Devi Nambudripad. This
technique was discovered accidentally by Dr. Nambudripad
when she learned how to eliminate her own allergies.
Reportedly, Dr. Nambudripad suffered from allergies to a
large number of foods and was on a very restricted diet.
One evening she was fixing dinner for her husband and was
cutting up carrots (which she was allergic to).
Apparently, just getting a little bit of carrot juice on
her skin was enough to trigger an allergy attack. Dr.
Nambudripad immediately stopped what she was doing and
decided to perform an acupuncture treatment on herself and
lie down to rest. She actually fell asleep with the
acupuncture needles still in place, and when she awoke, she
noticed that she was feeling much better. She noticed that
in her haste she had failed to wash off all of the carrot
juice from her hands and there were still bits of carrot on
her skin, but she was no longer reacting to it. On a
hunch, she tried eating a small amount of carrot and to her
excitement, she did not have any adverse reaction to it.
From there, the technique was developed and is now used for
desensitizing all kinds of allergens - including inhaled
pollens such as the case with mountain cedar allergy.
Since the original development of NAET, several other
techniques have been developed. The one I use in my office
is called ASERT (Allergy and Sensitivity Elimination and
Reprogramming Technique). While not identical to NAET, the
principles are similar. Instead of acupuncture needles,
ASERT uses "cold" laser to stimulate acupuncture points,
and the procedure is completely painless and well-tolerated
even by very young children.
Both NAET and ASERT defy a believable description, but they
are remarkably fast acting, taking effect in 24 hours or
less, and the desensitization effect lasts for several
months to several years in the majority of cases. A
session to desensitize a single allergen like mountain
cedar can usually be accomplished in a single 30 minute
office visit. After the procedure, the allergic reactions
(congestion, irritated eyes, etc.) ease off quickly and the
need for antihistamines, decongestants, and other
medications is typically eliminated.
So, if cedar fever has you in it's grasp, or if you suffer
from any other allergies, there's good news - you don't
have to suffer anymore!
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Dr. Best is a holistic healthcare practitioner in San
Antonio, Texas. For more information, please visit
http://www.youniquehealthcare.com . Dr. Best can be
reached via email at DrBest@youniquehealthcare.com.
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