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Relieving Oak Allergies Naturally
from: Dr. George BestAnyone who lives in an area with a high number of oak trees is all too familiar with the huge amounts of pollen that these trees produce and the allergy symptoms that result. Looking almost like fuzzy little worms, the pollen pods release the oak pollen into the air to be carried by the wind, and the pods drop to the ground to pile up and make a mess on 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 pollen creates. Even pavement where the spent pollen pods accumulate will get stained brown. For those allergic to oak pollen, the symptoms can be severe. Massive sinus drainage, watery eyes, sneezing, and/or coughing will develop that can defy almost any allergy treatment available, at least until the oak pollen subsides.
Some oak allergy sufferers turn to drastic treatment measures like steroids to try to reduce the reaction. Some may be motivated to try to get rid of the allergies through allergy shots, not knowing that it typically takes years to get good results.
Many oak allergy sufferers will seek out natural relief from treatments like nutritional supplements, herbal remedies, homeopathy and/or acupuncture, and all of these forms of treatment will provide some degree of temporary relief for the majority of people. But what if there was a way to do more than just suppress allergy symptoms?
There is in fact a way, using "energy medicine" to actually get rid of allergies, including those to oak pollen long-term and produces results within days (as opposed to years for allergy shots) and does not require repeated needle sticks.
The most widely-practiced of these natural allergy relief methods is NAET, which stands for Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique. Dr. Devi Nambudripad is a chiropractor and acupuncturist from California who accidentally discovered how stimulating specific acupuncture meridians while being exposed to the allergens one reacts to can reset the body so that it no longer reacts to those allergens.
NAET was originally developed in the 1980's. Since that time, other similar techniques have come on the scene, and there are now more streamlined and efficient natural allergy elimination methods in use, but NAET contnues to be the most widely practiced. To the uninitiated, all of the energy based allergy elimination methods are very strange, and may seem too fast and easy to be effective, but in the eight years I have been using ASERT (Allergy and Sensitivity Elimination and Reprogramming Technique, a newer, more efficient technique based on the basic principles of NAET), I have had great outcomes with the vast majority of even the most severe of allergy sufferers.
Because these techniques are so strange and because I practice in San Antonio, an area where a high percentage of the population is still extremely skeptical of alternative medicine, I do the allergy desensitization on people and let them experience the results before they pay me. I actually work on the "honor system" - I don't collect any money or payment information at all and let people try out the allergy elimination technique and then they pay me when they are satisfied that it worked for them. The vast majority send me checks or call me with a credit card number, which I think is a dramatic testament to the effectiveness of this technique.
The effects of energy-based allergy elimination are achieved very quickly in most cases. In the case of seasonal allergens like oak, allergic individuals may have their main symptoms for a month or two, and they want something that will help right away, rather than something that may take years to give good results like allergy shots. They also want to avoid as much as possible the treatments that can have serious side-effects like steroids. With energy-based allergy elimination, relief usually occurs within a day or two and comes without the risk of any significant side-effects.
Better yet, the effects of energy-based allergy elimination last for several months to several years because these techniques actually get rid of the allergies, not just suppress allergy symptoms and inflammation. So, oak allergy sufferers can usually go through multiple oak seasons without any problems without ongoing treatment after going through the allergy desensitization.
Although NAET practitioners often claim that the effects of NAET are permanent, which they may be in some cases, it has been my experience that allergies can re-develop, particularly after somone is sick with a cold or flu, or suffers a major trauma during a high pollen season. It appears that the body may develop allergies in a "guilt by association" manner in which an activation of the body's immune system and inflammatory response from something other than pollen may become associated with the presence of a given allergen, thus triggering a reaction to the allergen. In other words, if you catch the flu during a time when oak pollen is high, it is not unusual to develop oak allergies.
It has been my experience that energy-based allergy desensitization offers fast, effective, natural allergy relief for oak pollen allergies, as well as any other type of allergy (including other inhaled allergens, foods allergies, and skin-contact allergies).
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