Treatments to Correct Allergic
and Aversion Responses

Allergies were once defined as immune reactions to offending substance. Today the definition of allergic responses has widened to include any kind of reaction to a substance, associated with an immune mediator or not. If the sensitivity is fixed, a person can directly link their symptoms to the allergen. But fixed allergies are more the exception than the rule. Most allergic reactions are cumulative or variable, occurring only sometimes or in combination with other items. This makes testing for allergens difficult. Skin testing is unreliable, sublingual testing with potentized antigen drops can cause lethal reactions, and blood tests that identify immune mediated reactions can be expensive and are not always reliable. And treatments options are oppressive. Strict avoidance and rotation diets are prescribed alone or in combination with lengthy series of injections, sublingual potencies, vitamin fortification, and so on. Therapies are ongoing because of limited success.

Over the last 30 years a combining of traditional and modern medicine has fostered a new approach to allergy treatment. As East Asian medicine has indigenized to the West, traditional ways of looking at the body have met with instrumental technology. Not only can bioelectric potency of channels and acu points be measured, (EAV: Electro Acupuncture according to Dr. Voll) but the measures themselves can be predictors of tissue functionality. And when an offending substance is introduced into a person’s field their channel conduct changes. Mere proximity of a substance stresses the bioelectric body in measurable ways.

Meridian Stress Assessment has become a new technology for identifying and measuring allergens/sensitivities. And the definition of an allergen has become any substance that challenges or weakens the system in this measurable way. The cumulative effect of many offending substances in a stressed or vulnerable person’s diet/ environment is believed to be the terrain of chronic illness.

So pain in your leg, or shoulder, or head, or ear itching, feeling bloated, fear of heights, inability to focus may in fact be an allergic reactions. Your practitioner may recommend a computerized meridian stress assessment to help identify substances that weaken your system. Or your practitioner may use a simple muscle testing procedure to identify common allergic mixes. Once identified, the reaction to substance can be treated. Once cleared, the substance will no longer produce symptoms, and nutrients previously averted can be absorbed.

A correction or clearing involves a simple manual procedure while holding either a glass vial with the energetic signature of an offending substance, or a glass jar containing the substance itself. Even a slip of paper with the name of the substance will do if either of the others is unavailable.

After this manipulation, the muscle test is repeated. If the indicator muscle is now strong, and remains strong when each of the organ alarms points is tested, the aversion to the substance has been temporarily corrected.

Step 2 involves needle stimulation of certain acupuncture points. The needles are left in place for 15 minutes. The person being treated continues to hold the vial throughout this process. When step 2 is completed, the needles are removed, the patient gives back the vial, washes their hands with cool water, and is instructed to avoid touching or ingesting the substance just cleared for 25 hours, one entire meridian cycle plus an hour. Care must be taken that the substance is avoided in its direct but also indirect forms. For example, sugars and artificial sweeteners may be hidden in toothpaste and mouthwash. Coming into contact with the substance may defeat the clearing and produce a reaction. Some protocols now drop this last step. Others require the patient to keep a dilution of the substance within their field for a few days.

Muscle testing is used at the next office visit to determine if the aversion or allergic response to the specific item has corrected. The same item may be tested in combinations, or the process may move on to another item. Vitamins that are cleared may then be tested for correct dosage, which may be high at first since aversion reactions mitigate absorption. Dosages needs reduce as the nutrient is finally accepted.

People can also have allergies or aversions to other people, to a place, an event, or an emotion that results in a patterned somatic response. The psychotherapeutic community uses a similar kind of somatic reframing in the technique called EMDR, (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). And hands on providers have adapted the allergic correction techniques described above to heal traumatic or painful emotional problems.

The common denominator to all these techniques is an intentional somatic reframing. A re adaptation occurs while the substance is held in the hand, or thought image is held in the mind. The allergic or aversion response shifts and patients are liberated from habitual physical and emotional reactivity. In this case, it is not a substance that makes us sick but our reaction to it.

Research psychologists consider these reactions an automatic function of ‘implicit memory’. Implicit memory is the ‘mental butler’ that ‘lives’ in the left brain, recording and executing our preferences. Some outside stimulation knocks at the door of our perception but before conscious choice can get to the door to open it, the mental butler answers in an automatic fashion. These techniques find a way into the left brain and intentionally interrupt the mental butler with new instructions.

Whatever the constructed mechanism, patients treated with correction techniques like NAET, JMT, or EMDR are finding their way back to health, and are grateful. If you are interested in finding out more about these techniques, ask your healthcare provider for a referral. Or you can contact the websites www.NAET.com or www.EMDR.com.