Allergies - Seasonal

MD Cause: Pollen, dust, animal dander, and the proteins in certain foods.MD Rx: Antihistamines; Allergy shots: intra-muscular injections of the things that you are allergic to in order to desensitize your body to them.

ND Cause: Nutrient deficiencies, blood sugar imbalances, and a toxic body. Discussion: If as the MDs argue, pollen, dust and animal dander, etc. are the causes of allergies, then why isn't everybody allergic? There can be 4 people in a convertible (with the top down) driving on a country road. The car drives right through a big cloud of pine pollen. Two of the people in the car have allergic reactions to it, and the other two do not. Everybody was exposed to the pine pollen. So - what was different with the bodies of the people who reacted to the pollen? What exactly was it that caused them to become allergic, and not the other people in the car? You would think that medical science would attempt to answer this question, but it does not. Rather than attempting to figure out the cause of the allergic reaction, and come up with a cure, the allopath focuses on treatments designed to manage, suppress, and mitigate the allergic symptoms. Inquiring minds want to know: What makes more money – treatments which manage the problems, or treatments which cure the problems? ·     An interesting footnote here is the fact that you can only be allergic to a protein. if you are experiencing any allergic symptoms whatsoever it is because your immune system is reacting strongly to the presence of a protein in your body. A common misconception about allergies is with jewelry. If people develop rashes on their skin from rings, bracelets, or necklaces, the false belief is that they have developed an allergy to copper, or gold, or silver, or whatever is in the jewelry. This of course is nonsense because there is no protein in the jewelry. These reactions are capitulated by an interaction between your perspiration and the metal in the jewelry. With people who experience these types of reactions, a weak acid is formed when their sweat mixes with the metal in the jewelry. It is an acid burn that irritates the skin, not an allergic reaction. This is also why an overdose of magnesium causes diarrhea. If you swallow too much magnesium at once, your body will not be able to absorb all of it. So - the unabsorbed magnesium passes from your small intestine into your colon. Once there, the magnesium mixes with the liquids found in the colon which creates a weak acid which irritates the walls of the colon and induces diarrhea. In effect, the body is simply attempting to eliminate the magnesium which is irritating it. 

My Rx: In addition to the 90 EN:·   Cell Shield RTQ:1 bottle per 100 pounds per month in divided doses. ·     Good Herbs Sinus & Allergy Support: During your allergic season, take the acute dose outlined in Part 2, Chapter 6.·    

Discussion: When people are experiencing allergies there are times during the day when they have acute flare-ups of their allergic symptoms. These flare-ups are always preceded by the consumption of food or drink which is aggravating to the system, and which in effect throws gasoline on the flames of the allergic predisposition. This is a difficult thing to track however, as the aggravation of the allergies from food or beverage consumption is delayed. It is not immediate. Usually 5 to 15 minutes after the consumption of the offending food or drink is when the allergies flare. The best way to get a handle on this is to write down on a notepad or your smart phone everything that you have had to eat or drink within 15 minutes before the flare-up. By the fourth time you keep track of these things, there will be a number of items on your notes which are similar. Those are the offenders and those are the things that you should eliminate from your diet. Perhaps it is sugar that flares up your allergies. Perhaps it is orange juice which flares up your allergies. Perhaps it is ketchup or mustard which flares up your allergies. It can be anything really, but more often than not it is something that is high in sugar. I do not know the mechanism here I just know that it is a reproducible phenomenon that if you feed somebody something high in sugar during allergy season it is more likely than not to provoke a flare-up of the allergies. If you pay attention to these triggers, then during your bad allergy season you can simply eliminate these foods and beverages from your diet, thereby greatly decreasing your suffering. ·     A five-day detoxification program which includes fasting and colonic hydrotherapy is recommended three times a year for the first year, then once a year after that. I discuss how to do this in Part 2, Chapter 3. As you slowly eliminate from your body accumulated biochemical toxins, your allergic predisposition should subside. You can also follow the detoxification program outlined in the book The Toxin Solution by Joe Pizzorno, ND (see Part 2 Chapter 3). 

Homeopathy:·     Allium cepa: acrid, burning discharge from the nose, bland discharge from the eyes.·     Euphrasia: bland discharge from the nose, acrid and burning discharge from the eyes.·     Wyethia: the distinguishing characteristic of this remedy is an itchiness on the roof of the mouth associated with allergies.