(home)

about us

treatments

articles

links

Eliminating your allergies

With allergies looming as such an ominous possible cause of problems today, it is hard to turn your attention away from the possibility that they may be the cause or at least part of the picture in many cases we see in the clinic.

About a year ago a person from the Kootenays who knew of me beckoned me to study NAET (Nambutripad Allergy Elimination Technique) so that she could start coming to me for treatment. When I took the training in Southern California, I was surprised to encounter doctors from all walks of life, stature, and specialty were taking the training with me. I spoke to one naturopath from Anchorage, Alaska, who himself had over 200 clearings from a fellow naturopath in Anchorage before he decided to study the treatment for himself. A medical doctor, from Alameda County near San Francisco, was questioning that his main motive for being there was just to stay current, since over a dozen doctors in his same area were using the technique on an ongoing basis. An eminent psychologist from New York had started a biannual conclave on the technique and new research findings. I guess I had to feel privileged to be among the first 100 doctors to be trained in the technique, but to me the proof would be in the results I would get in my own clinic.

Why do we get allergies?

Most allergies are a state of mind, or a state of health. According to Dr. Nambutripad, most allergies are accrued after trauma of some sort or another. Just imagine that you were the victim of a sickness that drained your body of its reserves. Your body/mind computer may well recognize that your body at this time could not fend off another major sickness that went deeper into the body. So then it steps up your first line of defence so that something that even began to seem like trouble, like dust (because dust mites are present), can be stopped at the perimeter. This blocking reaction may be a histamine or a blood stagnation that causes a headache, a cough, a sneeze, coagulation of synovial fluids that cause the joints to ache etc.

When we go into emotional shock, the vibrational energies of our subconscious mind may look beyond our overriding state of denial to find a perpetrator in something more material. For example, let us say that your father is angry and chooses you as the whipping post for all his pent-up fury. Still in shock, you sit down to eat, but your body/mind chooses to attach that emotional shock to the next thing you put into your mouth and it thereafter becomes an allergen. Today many doctors are using the technique to rid the body of overriding emotional trauma and are having a good deal of success. Dr. Nambutripad suggests that you never should eat if you are upset or overwrought.

The discovery

Dr. Devi Nambutripad was herself one of the most allergic people on the face of the planet. But at first she didn’t know that her problems were possibly of an allergic nature until she attended the lecture of a well-known Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. So, in order to find some answers she became a student of Chinese medicine. She soon discovered that the only two things she could eat safely were rice and broccoli. One day while she was boiling up her broccoli she found that she had absent-mindedly started nibbling on a carrot. She gave herself an acupuncture treatment to help lessen the reaction, and woke up an hour later feeling perfectly fine. She'd wondered what she’d done, for she had used acupuncture before, but would never recover fully then until a couple of days later. Then she looked down and found that she had been lying on a piece of the carrot the whole time. The rest is history, as they say, for she found that freeing her body’s flow of energy while still being exposed to the allergen was the first part of the puzzle.

My own findings

Since returning from this training, I have treated over 130 people. One of my most allergic patients was a person who was born during wartime England. When she was only a month old a bomb landed in their front garden while her mother was breastfeeding her. The bomb turned out to be a dud but the normally thriving baby became sickly and could no longer handle her mother’s milk. Furthermore, thereafter she cried when her mother held her and their relationship became estranged.

In a person like that, Nambutripad says, it is important to test for basic elements like Vitamins B and C and A, and iron and minerals, sugar, protein etc. In this person’s life the differences have been profound. I was a little nervous when I went to treat people for things like allergies to smoke in the room or dust, but was excited even more when they came back brimming with thanks at their results.

Of course balancing, building, and moving energies is still basic to health and the biggest part of what a Doctor of Chinese Medicine does, but adding this to the picture through allergy elimination has brought in a whole new dimension of my own ideas on holistic healing. 

Copyright © Joel Whitehead. This document may only be modified for technical reasons (e.g., compatibility with other platforms), but the actual content of this page may not be changed. One electronic copy and one paper copy may be made for personal use, but this document may not be distributed under any form, in whole or in part.

top of page

contact us