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Oak trees produce lage volumes of pollen from their fuzzy, worm-like pollen pods and trigger major reactions in allergic individuals. The fine oak polen particles are carried by the wind, and the spent pollen pods collect in piles on the ground.

Oak pollen coats everything, leaving a yellow-brown film on windows and cars, and staining the pavement where the pollen pods collect. Oak allergy sufferers are overcome with sinus drainage, irritated eyes, coughing, and sneezing that may resist almost every allergy treatment available.

Those afflicted with oak allergies may turn to desperate measures such as steroid injections as a means to stem the tide of allergy symptoms. Some get motivated to try for long-term relief through allergy shots, often unaware that shots usually take months or years to get good results.

Natural allergy relief products such as herbal remedies, homeopathy, nutritional supplements, and acupuncture all provide some degree of temporary symptom relief in most cases, but what if there was a way to do more than just briefly suppress allergy symptoms and actually get rid of the allergic reactions?

There is in fact a way, using “energy medicine” to actually get rid of allergies, including those to oak pollen long-term and produces results within days (as opposed to years for allergy shots) and does not require repeated needle sticks.

NAET, which stands for Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Technique is the most widely-practiced of these natural allergy relief methods. Dr. Devi Nambudripad is an acupuncturist and chiropractor in California who accidentally discovered that stimulating specific acupuncture meridians while being exposed to allergens one is reactive to can reset the body so that it no longer has allergies.

Since the development of NAET in the 1980’s, other similar techniques have been developed, and there are more streamlined allergy elimination methods now in use, but NAET remains the most widely practiced. To be sure, all of the energy based allergy elimination methods are a bit strange, and may seem a bit too good to be true, but in 8 years of practicing ASERT (Allergy and Sensitivity Elimination and Reprogramming Technique, one of the newer, more streamlined techniques based on the principles of NAET), I have seen great success with even the most chronic of allergy sufferers.

I practice in San Antonio, and because it is an area where a high percentage of the population is still very doubtful of any form of non-conventional healthcare, I do the allergy desensitization on people with a very unusual payment system. I do the full treatment program and let them experience the results before any payment is required. I don’t collect any money or payment information at all at the time of treatment and I let people try out the allergy elimination technique with the agreement that they will pay me when they are satisfied that it is effective for them. The vast majority of these patients send a payment in the mail or call my office with a credit card payment within a week or two of going through the desensitization procedure, which I think is a pretty powerful testimonial to the effectiveness of this technique and a strong rebuttal to those who insist that these methods are nothing but a hoax.

The effects of energy-based allergy elimination are achieved very quickly in most cases. In the case of seasonal allergens like oak, allergic individuals may have their main symptoms for a month or two, and they want something that will help right away, rather than something that may take years to give good results like allergy shots. They also want to avoid as much as possible the treatments that can have serious side-effects like steroids. With energy-based allergy elimination, relief usually occurs within a day or two and comes without the risk of any significant side-effects.

Better yet, the effects of energy-based allergy elimination last for several months to several years because these techniques actually get rid of the allergies, not just suppress allergy symptoms and inflammation. So, oak allergy sufferers can usually go through multiple oak seasons without any problems without ongoing treatment after going through the allergy desensitization.

NAET practitioners typically claim that the effects of NAET are permanent, which they may be in many cases. Even so, it has been my experience that allergies can occasionally re-develop. This is particularly true in situations when a person is sick with a cold or flu, or suffers a major trauma while there is a high amount of a pollen present in the environment. In my experience, it appears that the body may develop allergies in a “guilt by association” manner. In other words, the activation of the body’s immune system and inflammatory response may initially occur due to something other than pollen, but then may become associated with the presence of a given allergen, thus resulting in the body developing reaction to the allergen. An example of this is if you catch the flu during a time when oak pollen is high, it is not unusual to develop oak allergies.

In any event, it has been my experience that energy-based allergy desensitization provides rapid, effective, natural allergy relief for oak pollen allergies and other inhaled pollen allergies, as well as for food and skin-contact allergies.

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