Oak trees produce lage volumes of pollen from their fuzzy, worm-like pollen pods and trigger major reactions in allergic individuals. The fine oak polen particles are carried by the wind, and the spent pollen pods collect in piles on the ground.
Oak pollen coats everything, leaving a yellow-brown film on windows and cars, and staining the pavement where the pollen pods collect. Oak allergy sufferers are overcome with sinus drainage, irritated eyes, coughing, and sneezing that may resist almost every allergy treatment available.
Oak allergies drive people to try any number of remedies, with some even turning to drastic measures like steroid injections. Some will decide to handle the situation once and for all by starting allergy shots, even though the needles are less than pleasant, without realizing that it often takes years to finally get results.
Various natural allergy relief approaches such as acupuncture, herbal products, homeopathic remedies, and nutritional supplements can provide temporary reduction in symptoms to varying degrees in most people, but what if there was a way to get the body to stop reacting to allergens rather than just suppressing 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.
NAET, which stands for Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique is the most widely-practiced of these natural allergy relief methods. Dr. Devi Nambudripad is an acupuncturist and chiropractor in California who accidentally discovered that stimulating specific acupuncture meridians while being exposed to allergens one is reactive to can reset the body so that it no longer has allergies.
NAET initially came on the scene in the 1980's, and since then, other similar techniques have been developed. There are now other, more streamlined allergy elimination methods in use, but NAET is still the most commonly practiced in the Unted States. Energy based allergy elimination techniques are admittedly a bit strange, and often appear to be too good to be true. In eight years of practicing ASERT (Allergy and Sensitivity Elimination and Reprogramming Technique, one of the newer, more streamlined techniques based on the principles of NAET) though, I have found it to be remarkably effective on even the most chronic 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.
One of the great things about these methods is that they get results fast. For seasonal allergies like oak, allergic individuals may experience severe symptoms for a month or two, and are looking for natural allergy relief that gets results right away, not something that will take years to be effective like allergy shots. They also want to avoid treatments that can have serious side-effects like steroids if at all possible. With energy-based allergy elimination, relief usually occurs within a day or two and gets results without side-effects.
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, oak allergy sufferers can usually go through multiple oak seasons without any problems and without the need for ongoing treatment.
The effects of NAET are often claimed by practitioners to be permanent, and this may be true in many cases, but it has been my observation that allergies can re-develop. This is most commonly seen when somone is sick with a cold or flu, or suffers a major physical or emotional trauma during a high pollen season. It has been my observation that the body appears to develop allergies in a "guilt by association" manner. What I mean by this is that when there is an activation of the body's immune system and inflammatory response from something other than pollen, the body may begin to associate the immune reaction with the presence of a given allergen, thus triggering a reaction to the allergen when the body is exposed to it again. In other words, if you catch the flu during a time when oak pollen is high, you may develop oak allergies.
In any case, energy-based allergy desensitization is very much for real, and it offers fast, effective natural allergy relief for oak pollen allergies, as well as any other type of allergy (including airborne allergens, foods, and skin-contact allergies).
Dr. George Best is a holistic healthcare practitioner in San Antonio, Texas. For additional information about oak allergies, visit Natural Allergy Relief.
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