One of the fastest growing disorders in the U.S. is asthma. In the last twenty years the rise has been so pronounced that it has been labeled epidemic in the medical community. Although it occurs at all ages, it is most common in children under the age of ten, where statistics indicate more children suffer from asthma than from any other chronic disease.
Although the specific causes of asthma are unknown, it is associated with familial, infectious, allergenic, environmental, socioeconomic, and psychological factors. Risk factors such as increased stress on the immune system from greater environmental/chemical pollution in air, water, and food have been shown to correlate strongly with higher incidences. In children, earlier weaning and the earlier introduction of solid food to infants, as well as increased use of food dyes, preservatives, and the pertussis vaccine have been causatively linked. In addition, the genetic manipulation of plants, resulting in food components with greater allergic tendencies have also been implicated.
While the use of steroids and bronchial dilators have symptomatically improved the condition of many, if not most asthmatics, sometimes even saving lives, the underlying causes have not been addressed. Fortunately, the tools for a natural approach to relieving asthma are readily available.
The obvious first step in a natural approach is to minimize the allergic threshold by reducing contact with air-born and food allergens. Much can be done in cleaning up the immediate living environment. In particular, dust mites should be eliminated. They have been found to secrete an enzyme that stimulates the immune system, which can trigger asthmatic symptoms. With food allergens, elimination diets have been shown to be successful in both identifying and controlling asthma. Common food allergens such as eggs, fish, shellfish, nuts and peanuts, milk, chocolate, wheat, and citrus are the usual culprits. While eliminating these foods can be of tremendous help in both controlling and eliminating asthma, it is often neither easy nor practical to accomplish.
In my practice I have found that using NAET ( Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Techniques) to be the missing link in eliminating the allergic component to asthma. The technique effectively locates and permanently eliminates both food and air-borne allergens without elimination diets or life-long avoidance and has an 80 to 90% success rate. It permanently reprograms the brain and nervous system to not react to the offending allergens
In addition, dietary and supplemental considerations can also be extremely valuable. For some asthmatics, minimizing and sometimes eliminating the intake of animal products can provide substantial improvement. In these individuals the decreased intake of arachidonic acid found in animal products can be significant in lowering the inflammatory response. Antioxidants, magnesium, Omega-3 essential fatty acids as well as the appropriate use of botanicals can be of tremendous benefit. In my experience with most asthmatics, this type of interdisciplinary approach works.
If you are interested in pursuing this type of treatment for asthma, make an appointment for anaturopathic consultation.
"A Dramatic New Treatment For Allergy Sufferers"
by Tony Konopka, MS, L.Ac., Dipl. Ac.
For the millions of us who suffer from allergies and food sensitivities, there's an innovative new treatment developed by Dr. Devi Nambudripad called the Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Treatment or NAET. The treatment effectively locates and permanently eliminates food and substance allergies and sensitivities without long-term fasting, elimination diets or life long avoidance of the offending items. It allows the allergy sufferer to safely consume or come back into contact with the previously harmful substance.
The results can often seem miraculous. I recall one client who had been unable to consume bread since childhood due to severe reactions. After one treatment she was safely eating bread daily in moderation. Another patient reacted strongly to soy and eggs ever since she could remember. After NAET treatment she no longer had to carefully scrutinize labels and could comfortably eat in any restaurant of her choice. These are not isolated cases. Having worked with hundreds of individuals from infants to seniors, the results are consistently excellent. NAET releases food, contact, and air-borne allergens with an 85 to 90% success rate.
According to Dr. Nambudripad, "There's hardly any human disease or condition in which allergic factors are not involved. Any substance under the sun including sunlight itself, is capable of creating an allergic reaction in an individual." Undiagnosed allergies can produce symptoms ranging from migraines, anxiety, depression, backaches, chronic fatigue and addictions, to more serious conditions like arthritis and auto-immune disorders.
Not just another "bag of tricks", NAET is a safe and effective holistic process that incorporates aspects from long-standing traditions of Oriental Medicine, Chiropractics, and Naturopathy. In a nutshell, what NAET does is retrain the nervous system to no longer react to offending allergens.For an allergy sufferer, the nervous system interprets a particular substance as potentially toxic to the body, usually creating a cascade of uncomfortable symptoms. For others, the same substance has no effect. Why is it that one person, for example, can consume wheat-based products or peanuts with no reactions and another have severe allergic reactions?
According to Dr. Nambudripad, when energy is flowing freely along the body's energy pathways or meridians, "no allergic reaction is possible". Blockages in the meridians occur because the allergic person's immune system misinterprets normally harmless substances as threats to the body, creating antigen-antibody complexes. Consequently, Dr. Nambudripad states, "When trying to destroy these complexes, the immune system brings about an auto immune reaction that inflames and eventually destroys healthy tissue. This inflammatory reaction blocks the energy flow along the meridians and prevents the movement of vital energy to nourish the body's organ systems." In NAET these blockages are gently released and the body is reprogrammed not to react to the offending substance, allowing the individual to safely consume or come in contact with what previously caused an allergic reaction.
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THE EMF BALANCING TECHNIQUE®
A New Form of Energy Work
Universal Calibration Lattice
The EMF Balancing ® Technique is a new system of energy work that has been designed to strengthen the patterns of the electromagnetic field (EMF) surrounding our body. Why is that important? The primary value in strengthening these patterns is that it results in a strengthening of our human physiology, and is a way to "rewire" and strengthen our energy body. With this technique we are able to comfortably hold more of our core energy.
The part of the human energy anatomy that is being directly worked with during the EMF Balancing Technique® is called the Universal Calibration Lattice (UCL). It is composed of fibers of light and energy that radiate both horizontally and vertically. Long vertical fibers of light and energy stretch from a center approximately two feet above us to a center about two feet below us. Connecting to these vertical fibers are horizontal fibers radiating outward from our chakras in figure-eight patterns.
Stored in the fibers is the record of all that we have ever experienced, our hereditary patterns, and things still forming in our future that we are manifesting. Along with this information, we may also store excess electromagnetic "charges" from emotionally charged past events or fears of the future. When these excess charges are released during the EMF Balancing Technique® sessions, practical changes are seen in daily life. Old emotional patterns dissolve. Some report not being triggered by situations that used to normally upset them. Others are not so afraid to create new things in their lives. Although considered a side effect, physical healings are sometimes also seen during sessions. This occurs because the electromagnetic field around the body is a blueprint for the physical body. When the electromagnetic field is cleared, the body adjusts to a new blueprint of health.
The EMF balancing work is divided into four sessions of graceful and simple movements performed by the practitioner while the person receiving the session relaxes comfortably. Each session has a specific intent and contains a different energy pattern that is traced through the energy field. Most people feel the energy moving through their bodies, but this is not necessary for a successful session.
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