Question:
I'm a young guy, who has a lot of annoying allergy in my hands and at the
moment I am considering to try some alternative/unconventional medicine
treatments like acupuncture(the needle thing) or Biopathy. Because these
treatments are pretty expensive, I would like to hear if there are anyone,
who have had their allergies cured by some kind of alternative/unconventional
medicine?
Answer:
I don't use the word "cure" but most of my allergies seem to be gone as a
result of clearing them with NAET (Nambudripad Allergy Elimination
Technique). NAET uses many of the same principles as acupuncture. I can now eat foods that caused me allergic reactions for decades. My
brother and his dog just spent 5 days at my house and I did not react to
his dog. I did not have my spring allergies, and have not had any hay fever
allergy symptoms this year. I don't react to dust, mold, perfume, smoke or
other things like I used to. With NAET, when your allergies are cleared,
you can come into contact with what you were reacting to and no longer
react...you don't have to avoid it anymore.
As a result of my experiences with NAET, I started a mail list where
patients and NAET practitioners can share information and experiences on
NAET. The NAET website http://www.naet.com is currently under construction.
There is some information on NAETand allergy links at
http://www.thomson.com/allergy/index.html
Try www.quackwatch.com before you spend your money. Not only are these
'cures' expensive, but some of them do more harm than good. Remember that when an 'alternative' treatment is demonstrated to be a safe
and effective treatment - it ceases to be 'alternative' and becomes
'conventional' medcine.
A treatment usually falls under the "alternative" catagory when it is not
accepted/practiced by conventional medicine. Acceptance by conventional
medicine can be due to a variety of factors including money, politics ("old
boy's network", "turf", governmental politics, etc), business, etc. Safety
and effectiveness are often a factor, but they can also be overshadowed or
overlooked as a result of the above factors.
I heard on the news this week that 1/2 of the medical schools in the
country have courses in alternative medicine. I believe they said this was
published in JAMA. Seeing as how 1/3 of adults in a survey see an
"alternative" practitioner, usually paying for it "out-of pocket", the
conventional medical establishment is playing "catch-up", coming to
conclusions about many of these treatments that many folks already know
from direct experience.
