ELIMINATING ALLERGIES NATURALLY WITH NAET and BioSET
Allergies are the 6th leading cause of chronic disease in the United States, costing the health care system $18 billion annually.
NIAID, Dec.2004
NAET has been described in the book (1000p): Alternative Medicine, The Definitive Guide“, as “one of the fastest-growing new therapies in the field of alternative medicine”.
BioSET is an offshoot of NAET developed by Dr. Ellen Cutler that is rapidly garnering attention as “medicine for the 21st century”.
What is an allergy?
Viennese pediatrician Baron Clemens von Pirquet coined the term “allergy” (from the Greek “allos” meaning changed or altered state and “ergon” meaning reaction or reactivity) in 1906. Von Pirquet used the term to describe an altered reaction he had observed in patients, which he put down to the influence of external factors, an allergen, on the immune system.
Allergies are reactions of the immune system to specific substances called allergens (such as pollen, stings, drugs, or food) that, in most people, result in no symptoms. The most severe form of allergy is anaphylactic shock, which is a medical emergency.
What’s the difference between allergy and sensitivity, and intolerance?
Allergy: This term is used by the medical profession and allergy specialists to denote the body reactions involving the entire immune system, particularly the IgE (immuno-globulin, type E) immune reaction. These IgE antibodies can be measured by a blood or scratch test.
During an allergic process, the substance responsible for causing the allergy, or allergen, binds to allergic antibodies present on allergic cells in a person’s body, including mast cells and basophils. The mast cells and basophils then release inflammatory chemicals such as histamine and leukotrienes, resulting in allergic symptoms.
The allergic person can make allergic antibodies, or IgE antibodies, against a variety of allergens, including pollens, molds, animal danders, dust mites, foods, venoms and medications. This occurs through a process called sensitization, where a person’s immune system is exposed to enough of the allergen to make the body produce allergic antibodies to that substance. For example, food allergies are an immune system reaction in which undigested food particles are absorbed into the bloodstream and perceived as if they were foreign proteins. The body makes antibodies against the undigested food because the immune system views these proteins as unrecognizable and thus as a foreign invader. With later exposures, that same allergen binds to its corresponding IgE on allergic cells, and the body reacts with symptoms of allergies. Allergic symptoms can vary somewhat with the type of allergen and route of exposure (airborne pollen exposure may cause different symptoms than eating a food to which you are allergic).
Sensitivity: Similar to an allergy, but generally involves IgG antibodies instead of IgE antibodies. IgG antibodies are the slowly occurring variety, and do not appear in the blood until 24 to 72 hours after exposure to an offending food or substance. This will result in a delayed onset of symptoms. IgG antibodies can also be detected by a blood test.
Intolerance: Here, the problem is not with the body’s immune system, but, rather, with its metabolism. This term refers to a food intolerance, which is characterized by a missing enzyme that is needed to digest a particular food. Familiar examples include the enzyme lactase which is necessary to digest milk products, and the enzyme needed to digest beans. Both cause intestinal problems, mostly gas from the fermentation of the food instead of digestion.
NAET and BioSET view an allergy quite simply:
An allergy is anything that causes the body to react negatively. Reactions encompass a broad spectrum of symptoms, ranging from itchy eyes and a runny nose to eczema, fatigue, or digestive upset.
How do I know if I have allergies?
Allergic symptoms cover a wide range, depending on the individual and the particular allergen.
Hay fever, whether due to pollen, trees, grass, dust, weeds, or chemicals, has a detrimental effect on organs such as the throat, the nose, the larynx (voice box), the trachea, and the bronchioles. When allergens infiltrate the nose, hay fever symptoms occur. This can include symptoms such as congestion, sneezing, and nasal discharge. When allergies affects the throat, a patient can experience itching and scratchiness. When the larynx is affected by an allergy, hoarseness and voice loss can occur. Environmental allergies also affect the airways, resulting in asthma and bronchitis. Here is a partial list of allergic symptoms:
- Sneezing, often accompanied by a runny or clogged nose
- Coughing and postnasal drip
- Itching eyes, nose, and throat
- Allergic shiners (dark circles under the eyes)
- The “allergic salute”
- Watering eyes
- Conjunctivitis
- Post nasal drip
- Mental dullness and fatigue
- abdominal cramping, anaphylactic shock
- arthritic type symptoms, canker sores
- constipation, depression
- difficulty concentrating, difficulty sleeping
- emotional upset, eczema
- fatigue, hives
- heartburn, indigestion
- irritability, itching
- migraine headaches, nocturnal enuresis
- red rash around the mouth, reddening or swelling skin
- rhinitis, stiffness
- stomach ache, swelling of the joints
- swelling of the lips and face
- vomiting, wheezing
Meridian Energy and Allergy
According to the Chinese system of medicine, the Qi energy flows along specific pathways in the body, known as meridians. Sickness is viewed as a blockage of the energy flow along the meridians. If the energy flow can be restored to normal, good health will return. Needles inserted at specific points along the meridians can restore the energy flow to normal.
The body’s energy is not confined to the energy that flows through the meridians. Every cell in the body is a bundle of energy — ATP, electrical currents in the heart cells, and muscle fibers. Energy is involved in every process in our bodies, including the biochemical changes within our cells. In this sense, any disease or malfunction, including allergy, is really an energy disturbance. When allergy is present, it means that the flow of energy is blocked, disturbed, or unbalanced, and therefore that the biochemical processes are not proceeding properly.
NAET and BioSET are energetic procedures designed to restore balance in the body with respect to a particular allergen. By combining exposure to the allergen with a specialized balancing treatment protocol, the body’s energy is reprogrammed so that it no longer clashes with the allergen’s energy.
Balanced Health
Imbalanced Health with Allergy Exposure
Balanced Health with Allergen Exposure
Energetic testing for allergies
The body’s meridian energy is connected to the muscles of the body. If you are exposed to the energy field of a substance to which you are allergic, it disturbs your energy flow. This energy disturbance is manifested in the form of a weakened muscle.
Muscle testing, or applied kinesiology, is one method to identify allergic substances that are interfering with the body’s energy flow. Unlike the traditional allergy testing methods, muscle testing does not require that we observe an actual allergic response. Rather, if a substance has the ability to weaken the muscle being tested, we deduce that that energy is being disturbed and that the person is sensitive to that substance. Thus, muscle testing can identify more subtle allergies and sensitivities whose effects are not directly or immediately observable.
Special computers, such as the Biomeridian, are capable of directly measuring these energy imbalances. The Biomeridian is an FDA approved device that is used to screen and desensitize allergies. The basic principle of the Biomeridian computer is the same as muscle testing, but the Biomeridian is capable of physically measuring the energetic stress or blockages associated with a sensitivity or allergic response. Computerized sensitivity screening takes muscle testing one step further, allowing the practitioner to quantitate the degree of sensitivity with a computerized readout. Computer software is used to register the conductance of an electrical charge at an acupuncture point. The process is simple and painless: an initial baseline scan is done on an acupuncture point on the surface of the skin. These acupuncture points are considered to be “information access windows”. Once baseline conductivity is established, frequencies of over 40,000 different potential foods, allergens, medications, and stressors can be output and the body’s response to each of these items can be measured. The response to different frequencies will affect the concentrations of the ions at the measurement points along the meridian. Inflammation may cause an increase ion concentration, and this increase of ions enhances the flow of electrons causing resistance to decrease while the conductance increases. Conversely, a weakened response may cause decease in ion concentration that hinders the flow of electrons, so as the resistance increases conductance decreases. A measurement of 50 is considered a balanced reading. Above 60 indicates an increased conductance of the body in response to a stressor, which is suggestive of an inflammatory process. Below 45 indicates decreased conductance, which signifies a more chronic weakness, or degeneration.
NAET: Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Technique
Nambudripad
The NAET technique was developed in 1984 by Dr. Devi Nambudripad, who began teaching it to other health professionals in 1989. There are now about 5000 NAET practitioners worldwide.
Current distribution by medical specialization is roughly as follows: 15% medical doctors, 40% acupuncturists, 30% chiropractors and 15% others (homeopaths, dentists, osteopaths, physiotherapists, naturopaths, etc.).
Allergy
An allergy is an adverse physical, physiological, and/or psychological response of an individual towards one or more substances also known as allergens. However, these substances may be harmless, well tolerated or even useful for most people. Dr. Nambudripad’s approach is the same for full-blown allergies involving the release of immunoglobulin type E (IgE-mediated reactions) in the body, and for intolerances, sensitivities and hypersensitivities (non-IgE mediated reactions). Her technique diagnoses and treats them all in the same way.
NAET believes that allergic reactions are determined by the way in which the brain perceives the substance in question. If the brain considers the substance a threat to the body, it will order the immune system to mobilize its defenses to fight the intruding substance. This manifests as an allergic reaction whose initial signs are aimed at chasing the intruder away. However, more often than not this perception is erroneous and our brain actually betrays us by triggering an inappropriate response, manifesting as allergic symptoms.
When a person consumes a food substance or inhales something the body believes is harmful, the immune system also mistakenly believes that the substance is harmful. In its attempt to protect the body, the immune system creates specific antibodies. The next time the individual eats that food or inhales the allergen, the immune system releases chemicals and histamines in order to protect the body. These chemicals trigger a cascade of allergic symptoms that can affect all the systems of the body such as the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory system, genitourinary system, skin, the mind, the nervous system, and the cardiovascular system. According to traditional medicine, the only way to treat allergies is to avoid the foods or substances that are triggering the reactions. NAET is a technique that reprograms the body to eliminate these allergic symptoms, effectively eliminating the need for lifelong avoidance.
Elimination
Dr. Nambudripad discovered that if the roots of the sympathetic nervous system are given specific stimuli, the brain will receive messages that enable it to correct its faulty perception of the substance concerned (analogous to a computer “reset”). These new messages will be permanently imprinted in the brain after a number of other acupressure/acupuncture points have been stimulated, provided the patient follows certain precise rules for a specified time period after the treatment. This “reprogramming” constitutes the core part of the NAET methodology, and this theory has been extensively verified for more than fifteen years with highly satisfactory, long-lasting results. After the treatment, the incompatibly or clash of energies disappears completely and there is no trace of allergy, sensitivity or intolerance when the patient next comes into contact with the substance. This is because NAET treats the cause of the allergy, not the resulting symptoms.
Technique
NAET utilizes a combination of modalities to detect and desensitize patients from their allergies. NAET is an all natural and drug-free solution to eliminate allergies of all types and intensities by using a blend of testing and treatment procedures from acupuncture, allopathy, chiropractic, nutritional, and kinesiological disciplines of medicine. Applied kinesiology, or muscle response testing (MRT), is used to determine the allergic substance, or allergen, causing the allergic reaction. Computerized testing is now also available by equipped practitioners. Once the allergen has been determined, a chiropractic acupressure technique on the spine is used to desensitize the patient to the allergen. Acupuncture, acupressure, or cold laser is then given to keep the patient clear of their allergy. When NAET is done in the presence of a given allergen, an allergic reaction should not result upon future contact with that same substance. When this result is obtained, the patient is “clear”of his or her allergy to that substance.
BioSET: Bioenergetic Desensitization and Enzyme Therapy
Bioenergetic Testing
BioSET builds upon the NAET protocol, using computerized bioresonance. Computer assisted technology has greatly improved the more permanent clearing of the sensitivities, and also quickened the process of the BioSET clearing of sensitivities.
Sensitivity
As previously explained, each allergen or substance has a unique and specific resonant energy signal. An individual can react to that signal (via the various meridians of the human body) which is profiled on a computer with BioSET. The bioresonance device, in combination with the BioSET system, can recognize a resistance or dissonance and then reverse the resonant energy which directs or reprograms an allergen through the acupuncture meridians and nervous system which then becomes a permanent memory of the individual. This device is also thought to take the body’s own electro-magnetic signals, alter them and then feed them back into the body. Feeding this altered signal back into the body cancels out the pathological electronic information coming from viruses, bacteria, chemical toxins. food and environmental sensitivities. This causes the cells of the body to start pushing out and eliminating these disease-causing factors, and as the root causes of disease are removed from the body, healing can take place. Clinical symptoms are alleviated and tolerance to the specific allergen can be seen immediately. Re-testing on the computer or via kinesiological testing can verify this change. Many so-called permanent sensitivities can be reversed as well as many chronic health problems resolved with BioSET and the new bioresonance instrumentation.
Enzyme Therapy
Enzymes are easily recognized because they all end in “-ase”. There are three basic categories of enzymes: metabolic enzymes, digestive enzymes, and enzymes in raw foods. Metabolic enzymes run body processes, repair damage and decay, and heal disease, while digestive enzymes assimilate carbohydrates, proteins and fats into the body.
The human body makes approximately 22 digestive enzymes, capable of digesting protein, carbohydrates, sugars, and fats. The function of the enzyme, a specialized protein molecule, is to catalyze chemical reactions within the cells so that all physiological processes can occur.
There are four categories of plant enzymes that have uses in plant enzyme therapy: 1) protease-digests protein, 2) amylase-digests carbohydrates, 3) lipase-digests fat, 4) cellulase-digests fiber.
What is homeopathy and how does it relate to allergy elimination?
Instead of holding the actual allergen during an allergy treatment, you may be given a small homeopathic vial to hold. Homeopathics have energy too. The vial contains the energetic imprint of a particular allergen. Specialized computers may also be programmed to output homeopathic energies.
Homeopathics are made by taking a small amount of any substance, allergen, medicinal herb, or metal, and diluting it to a tiny percentage in water. A small amount of this solution is removed, and diluted again in another large batch. This process is repeated until the dilution is so small that none of the original material exists – only the frequency, like a “memory” of the herb or element, is left in the water.
BioSET therapy also incorporates the use of oral homeopathics to assist the body with detoxification.
NAET allergen vials
Activity:
Practice muscle testing with a partner to detect possible allergies and sensitivities. With sufficient practice you can become quite proficient. Ask your practitioner to correlate your findings with a computerized screen.
Steps:
- Have the person being tested extend their dominant arm out at a 90 degree angle.
- Slowly push down on the extended arm at the wrist and ask the person to “resist” against you. The object is to establish a baseline measurement, not to evaluate the absolute power of the muscle.
- If the person is unable to exert a sufficient resistance pressure against your push, have them drink a glass of water or have them massage clockwise just below the navel and on their chest. This helps to balance them for the testing.
- Place a vial or actual allergen in the hand of the arm not being tested. You can use anything—an apple, a peanut, an egg, a flower, etc. Repeat the muscle test, asking the person to resist. An arm that holds strong indicates no allergy. If the person is allergic to the substance, their arm will immediately and markedly weaken. Any weakness or dropping of the arm is a sign of allergy.
Computerized Medicine FAQs
Explanation of the readings
There are two types of computerized testing methods: the high/low and the dynamic testing. The high/low testing is more specific for testing inflammation. The dynamic testing is geared towards detecting imbalances in general, which may include inflammation, an allergy or sensitivity, metabolic processes, or nutritional deficiencies.
High low testing for inflammation
Computer software is used to register the conductance of an electrical charge at an acupuncture point. The process is simple and painless: an initial baseline scan is done on an acupuncture point on the surface of the skin. These acupuncture points are considered to be “information access windows”. Once baseline conductivity is established, frequencies of over 40,000 different potential foods, allergens, medications, and stressors can be output and the body’s response to each of these items can be measured. The response to different frequencies will affect the concentrations of the ions at the measurement points along the meridian. Inflammation may cause an increase ion concentration, and this increase of ions enhances the flow of electrons causing resistance to decrease while the conductance increases. Conversely, a weakened response may cause decease in ion concentration that hinders the flow of electrons, so as the resistance increases conductance decreases. A measurement of 50 is considered a balanced reading. Above 60 indicates an increased conductance of the body in response to a stressor, which is suggestive of an inflammatory process. Below 45 indicates decreased conductance, which signifies a more chronic weakness, or degeneration.
Dynamic testing for imbalances
Here we are looking at the shape of a curve, rather than the height of a line. Pressure is applied to the palm of the hand with the electrical probe, and a baseline is recorded. A small initial rise followed by a plateau, and then a subsequent rise, indicates a balanced reading. The plateau signifies the body’s ability to adapt or balance. As different frequencies are output, the body will either maintain balance, or respond to a signal with stress. A stressed or imbalanced signal will appear as a rise only; the lack of a plateau indicates inability to balance or adapt with respect to the particular signal.
Balanced BioSET Reading
Imbalanced BioSET Reading
Is it possible that my readings can change from one day to the next?
The body is a dynamic and intimately interconnected system. It is constantly on the search for homeostasis, or balance, and will utilize compensatory mechanisms to maintain equilibrium. Symptoms are merely the body’s manifestation of this quest for balance. For example, high intake of salt will trigger biochemical pathways within the body to release hormones that will signal the body to retain water, in order to balance the increased levels of salt. The blood sodium levels will therefore fluctuate over time, but maintain a general range. The same goes for blood pressure, electrolyte levels, glucose levels, cholesterol levels, etc. Blood work at a laboratory will reflect these phenomena of subtle fluxes. We’ve all seen our levels change slightly from one blood test to the next. Similarly, bioenergetic sensitivities and imbalances may be detected at certain times under various conditions, but it is the generalized readings that are of consequence and relevance. Computerized bioenergetic scans are able to detect such subtle energies that it is possible to detect minute changes, sensitivities, and imbalances that we may not even be aware of. The key take home point is that computerized screens are an excellent tool for detecting imbalances and sensitivities, but like any other testing, a range must be allowed.
Reasons why a treatment didn’t “hold”
Too many items cleared at once, underlying issue not addressed, microbial pathogen overload, adrenal imbalance, structural or emotional trauma.
Tips for maximizing treatment effects
The body requires a proper foundation upon which to build balance and strength. It is imperative to address any nutritional deficiencies through a sound dietary plan and high quality supplementation. Like a car, the body requires gas to run on. Higher quality gas increases performance, while a lack of gas prevents the car from running. Similarly, higher quality nutrition will increase the body’s ability to perform, and malnutrition will cause deficiencies. Statistics show that today’s food has a lower nutrient than ever before, due to soil depletion, fertilization methods, and lack of rotational farming. Ironically, as our stress levels increase, we have increased nutritional needs that are not being met by our current food supply. Even a healthy and organic diet is often not sufficient to provide adequate nutrients for today’s lifestyle needs. Nutrients and metabolism are so intricately linked that any shortage of enzymes, minerals, vitamins, amino acids, or fatty acids can prevent the body from conducting its optimal biochemical cellular reactions, which are vital for good health. In short, the body requires adequate substrates, or the raw building blocks of nutrition, to maintain equilibrium. These building blocks come from food, clean water, and/or supplements.
Likewise, it is important to detoxify any underlying virus, bacteria, fungus, parasite, or mycoplasma. This may be done via BioSET treatments coupled with detoxifiying herbs, homeopathic formulas, and/or enzymes.
Exercise is also essential to maintain proper metabolic rates and overall wellness. A mix of strength and cardiovascular is best, and basic forms include yoga, pilates, stretching, weight training, running, bicycling, swimming, and walking/hiking,
A daily meditation, breathing, or centering practice will promote alignment of the chakras and enhance mental and spiritual well-being.
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