Acupuncture And Allergies
Bid Goodbye To Hay Fever With Acupuncture Author: Gen Wright For most people the sweltering heat of summer is a welcome shift from the chilly seas...
Bid Goodbye To Hay Fever With Acupuncture
Author: Gen Wright
For most people the sweltering heat of summer is a welcome shift from the chilly season of winter, however, the prickly warmth also brings with it allergy symptoms such as hay fever and a whole bunch of summer allergies.
But with acupuncture, you can kiss allergies goodbye and say hello to the sunny weather. Yes, you read it right, I am in fact talking about the ancient form of healing that originated from China that has been proven effective to heal a wide range of ailments including hay fever and other illnesses that sprout during the spring and summer months.
Hay fever, for one, is a very usual allergic reaction caused by airborne elements such as hay pollens, grass, and flowers that would affect the upper respiratory passages involving the sinus, nose, eyes and throat. During spring and summer, the common culprits of hay fever are the pollens from the trees. Hay fever is presented with cold, runny nose, sneezing attacks and watery eyes.
But how can acupuncture help?
Acupuncture has been known, for thousands of years, to help restore a person's vitality as well as alleviate allergic symptoms by stimulating the acupuncture points with very thin needles.
These acupuncture points are located in strategic areas of the meridian pathways of the body's vital energy flow, known as Qi. Through the healing process, an acupuncture specialist will help the body to respond naturally to the treatment thereby restoring the natural balance of the body's organ systems.
Acupuncturists said that the modulating effect of acupuncture to the immune system is vital in addressing the symptoms of hay fever as well as other types of allergic conditions.
Hay fever, to be specific, is often provoked by a pathogen, which is dubbed as the "wind" in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The "wind" causes irritations in the respiratory system.
Acupuncture applies ample pressure on the acupuncture points using hair-thin needles to restore the respiratory system to its normal state. Aside from hay fever, the same acupuncture treatment has also been proven effective to treat chlorine allergy and prickly heat, which are also common during spring and summer.
Like other western form of hay fever treatments, acupuncture therapy is also best to start before the summer season began, which could be a very good preventive measure against the ailment. Just as they say, "prevention is better than cure."
Acupuncture therapy for hay fever and other allergies would usually take six weekly treatments, with treatment spacing ranging from bi-weekly to four times a week depending on how you react to the treatment.
After a year, the therapy could be lessen to two treatments prior to the peak of the season and with the effectiveness of acupuncture, you will soon realize that hay fever has long gone and you are now bound to enjoy summer without a single sneeze.
Has anyone had success with acupuncture for allergies/asthma?
I am thinking of starting acupuncture for my environmental allergies (pet dander, pollen, dust) and asthma. Has anyone had success with this? I would to love to hear someone’s personal experience with it. Thanks!
Yes. Once, while having an extremely horrible asthma attack, I managed to get into my doctor’s office. He told me to go to E.R., immediately. Instead, I went to my accupuncturist, from China, and, within moments, he had me breathing with NO problems! My doctor was upset when he realized I was not in the hospital. He called me at home, and demanded that I come back in to see him, NOW, when I told him I was fine, now. My doctor was totally shocked, and said it was impossible for me to have gone from ‘no breath, wheezing, struggling to get any breathing done………to just dandy. This accupuncturist was wonderful for my asthma.
Yes, it can help. Be careful, though. You’re still wise to avoid those foods. The point of doing the accupunture is to reduce your sensitivity, so that if there was a small trace of something you’re allergic to (example, if a teensy bit of tomato got into a bowl of something at a restaurant by accident, you wouldn’t die) you would be able to handle it better.
I feel your pain. My mom swelled up like a blow fish if she eats anything with citrus in it. She got accupunture ad Reiki and now it’s not so bad. Still happens, but at last there is less reaction to accidental consumption. Sounds funny, but it’s pretty sad!
So, start doing research in your area. Look for someone who is accreditted (just like a doctor) and try to locate one who specializes in allergies. I don’t know where you live, so I can’t offer any recommendations. Just go online and start calling around.
The same effect that gives you cotton mouth (dry mouth) when you smoke pot is the reason for it helping to clear your sinuses. It dries nasal passages and acts as a bronchodilator. You’re not alone!
There is a particular acupuncture or acupressure treatment called NAET (http://www.naet.com) that has been very effective for many in eliminating allergies/asthma.
My infant son was relieved of his egg allergy basically overnight as a result of these treatments.
I, on the other hand, did not find that the treatments “stuck” for me. It turned out that the reason for this was due to the fact that my leaky gut/toxicity issues (the roots of most allergic conditions) were not being addressed by the acupuncture, so the allergies would be better for a week or so, then come back. Overall I kept getting worse and worse when I was just doing the acupuncture. I believe my son did so well on the NAET treatments because, as a breastfed infant, he didn’t have the gut damage I had, and to some extent still have.
It was when I started rotating my diet and taking gut-supporting supplements (probiotics, enzymes, full spectrum omegas, among others) under my doctor’s supervision that I started to improve.
I would check out this website, http://www.aaemonline.org/, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. You should be able to find a doctor who will treat your allergies and asthma at their root cause — even eliminating them — so, eventually, you shouldn’t have to take medicine. I think, in many cases, you may actually receive more “holistic” treatment from one of these doctors than from an acupuncturist.
Hope this helps!
I have tried everything to clear my sinuses (allergies) and only marijuana works. Am I alone with this?
Before you talk about neti pot, sudafed, acupuncture, allergy shots, vics+ humidifier, I have tried all of those plus Mucinex and just about every OTC and Rx, weed works for me (and I wasn’t a user prior). Why?
I have severe food allergies, can acupuncture help?
Jicama, chicken, tomato, shellfish, and even certain fruit will cause me to go into anaphylactic shock. I’ve read acupuncture can help with food allergies, can it? Where should I go? What other methods can help me with my allergies?
Acupuncture for Allergies and Asthma???
I suffer constantly from asthma and allergies. I am on so much medication that it is hard to function in my daily life….I have tried every medication and shots available with little relief. I have heard that acupuncture can help with asthma and allergies. Does anyone have experience with using acupuncture to treat these problems? Please let me know about your experience. I don’t know if I should put time or money towards this….Thanks!
Acupuncture is a placebo treatment only. It will not help your allergies at all. Go to a proper doctor and get tested. Immunotherapy is the closest treatment there is to a cure, it is science based and certainly seems to have stopped my daughter’s allergies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy#Treatment
http://skepdic.com/acupuncture.html
Anyone try acupuncture for allergies and sinus problems before? Results?