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"Whenever I ate any kind of dairy or soybean products, my stomach and entire intestinal tract would start to spasm. They called it colic when I was a baby and
I have had it ever since. It usually began five to ten minutes after eating anything with milk, calcium and soy. After treatment from Dr. Devi, there were no spasms when I ate
the foods containing those items. My mother Cindy was the same as I, and Dr. Devi's treatment has had the same benefit for her." - Michelle Beasely, La Mirada CA, USA
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ArticlesNambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique (NAET)By Michaela Rose BANT, February 2006. As a nutritionist and allergy sufferer, I am always on the look-out for new allergy tests and treatments. So, when I read an article about NAET last year, I was intrigued. It sounded too good to be true. It seemed to suggest that here was a technique that could clear my allergies without having to avoid allergens for the rest of my life. This would be great news not only for me, but for my numerous patients with wheat and dairy problems. My experience has been that some people can clear intolerances by simply avoiding them for long enough and looking after their gut, liver and immune health. But some, including me, can't. With my usual healthy dose of cynicism, I started to research NAET. The more I read, the more unlikely it sounded, but I couldn't find a bad word written about it. I spoke to a couple of UK practitioners who seemed to confirm everything I was reading about the technique. I discovered there was a basic training seminar in the UK coming up and booked myself onto it. I went, I scoffed, I disbelieved, but I gained my certificate; it all felt far too improbable. (I've since found out that most NAET practitioners and indeed patients feel this way at the start, so I was not alone!) Since completing my training, I have had successful treatment myself from an experienced practitioner, I have treated myself for food allergies and I set up a 3 month trial with 'guinea-pig' patients to see if it would work - which it has so far. I have also been in regular contact with other practitioners on the same training course who seem to have found the same as me. This article describes what NAET is and what I have found so far. I hope it gives you hope - it has me. NAET was invented by Dr Devi Nambudripad. She was born in India and moved to the US in the 1970s. From birth, she suffered from severe allergies and subsisted for years on a diet of only white rice and broccoli to control her symptoms. On her quest to find help, she trained in medicine herself, first as a registered nurse and later as a doctor and an acupuncturist. She has a PhD in oriental medicine, is a qualified chiropractor and kinesiologist. In 1983, still trying to find an answer to her own allergies, she combined several of the techniques she'd learned and pretty much 'stumbled' onto the solution. Dr Devi sees 'allergy' not in the same terms as Western medicine, but more from an Eastern medical perspective - as a sort of 'clash' between the energies of the substance and the person. We are all energetic beings and everything on Earth has its own energetic fingerprint and electromagnetic field. Sometimes, these energies can affect one another adversely and cause blockages in our own energy system - in the meridians, which can then go on to affect the functioning of our organs and systems. It seems that the brain perceives a substance wrongly and sort of 'mis-categorises' it, thinking of it as a threat. It then mobilizes the immune system against the intruder and the normal allergic reactions result. Why the brain does this is still a mystery, although Dr Devi does hypothesise that it could be due to cellular mutation or damage that has taken place over generations and/or as a result of the changing toxins in the environment. As Dr Devi developed this theory, she discovered that if the roots of the symphathetic nervous system along the spine are stimulated, the brain will receive messages that enable it to correct its faulty perception of the substance. I think of this like a computer having a virus and the treatment rebooting the brain after a virus software update! Once the short treatment is complete, further acupuncture points are stimulated, the patient is allowed to rest and then has to avoid contact with the allergen for 25 hours. After this, the 'clash' of energies should have gone and there should be no reaction to the allergen anymore. This technique has been developed and used for over 20 years in the US, with great success. It has only recently been taught to practitioners across Europe and there are so far around 30 or so practicing therapists in the UK. My experience with it so far has shown me - and my patients - that it does work, although my patients laugh when I say I haven't really got a clue why! First, straight after the training, I went to see a practitioner in Leicestershire for treatment for an allergy to garlic. I have always suffered health problems myself, and have largely found that if I avoid wheat, gluten and dairy, I am fine. However, over the past year, I had begun to get intense itching, especially in my ears, and would often lie awake at night suffering, waking in the morning with swollen ears and blood all over my pillow. I gradually tracked it down to whenever I ate garlic. I had one NAET treatment for garlic, avoided it for 25 hours and then ate a raw clove - with no reaction over the next few days. I ate it again and again, and have been fine ever since. I must make it clear that treating for a substance like garlic first of all is a little unusual as you have to clear a certain list of 'basic' allergens first. Every patient is tested and treated for any found first. These are the basic building blocks for the body to work properly and later, deeper and more complex treatments are more likely to be successful after these 'basics' have been cleared. The basic allergens include things like B complex, minerals and sugars. The list has been developed over the years as being the most common allergens and those that need to be cleared for true health. Most people find their health has improved significantly by clearing their 'Basics' and I have even found that people's allergies to other substances clear as a result of clearing one or two basic allergens. For example, a wheat allergy could clear because the person was allergic to B vitamins within the grain. Or it may be that if you clear a really important allergy for you, all of the others clear as a result. This latter actually happened to one of my guinea pig patients. I asked my guinea pigs not to tell me what their problems were. I used the MRT (muscle testing technique - an adapted form of kinesiology) we are taught to discover what was wrong. In this case, the lady had severe allergies to wool and dust. We treated her for her first 'basic' allergen - Egg Mix (a mix containing the energetic fingerprints of egg white, egg yolk, chicken, feathers and tetracyclines, a common antibiotic used in chickens). Her wool and dust allergies cleared. We were both stunned - I thought I'd done something wrong and didn't trust my testing. I sent her home to wear her worst woolly jumper and she has had no reaction since. Over Christmas, she cleared out her very dusty loft and again had none of her usual flu-like symptoms. My other guinea pigs included an existing patient with quite severe health problems, similar to MS in terms of loss of muscle, brain and system function, but who has so far defied a diagnosis, and another lady with eczema. After the third basic allergy treatment, the lady's eczema improved dramatically. It is no longer as angry or raised and is showing clear signs of healing new skin underneath. The 'MS' lady recently wrote to say that since starting NAET, she has 'lost the feeling of being ill and now feel I am getting back to a level of normality.' That's the best thing a practitioner can hear, especially from someone with such severe problems - and after about 5 NAET sessions for her basic allergies. I personally have cleared 'sugars', which was a really important allergen for me. I have an on-going health problem of polycystic ovary syndrome which is related to insulin resistance. I have craved sugar all my life - wanting to know what's for pudding before I've eaten my main meal! My blood sugar can be all over the place and I get dizzy if I miss meals. It took me 4 treatments to clear the sugars with NAET, and I knew it had worked immediately after the last treatment because I felt completely different about sugar. I described this to someone recently as like being let out of prison. Other patients have recently said they have completely lost sugar cravings too, which has certainly helped a couple of patients having difficulty losing weight. One lady had such severe food intolerances, she became panicky and anxious after almost everything she ate. She has only had 2 treatments so far, but already is eating foods she was previously reacting to. Yet another lady felt like her 'battery had been recharged' after a treatment for iron. After the 20 minutes rest, she was hot, flushed and red all over. So, with NAET, it is early days for me and my patients, but so far, so good. The other practitioners on my course seem also to be having good results. I will continue into more complex treatments as people clear their basic allergies - and the true test will be when I clear my own wheat and dairy allergies, which have plagued me for years. I will let you know what happens... Michaela Rose BANT, February 2006. For more information on NAET or your nearest practitioner, go to naet.co.uk or read Dr Devi Nambudripad's book 'Say Goodbye To Illness'. You can contact me at my clinic near Manchester on 01457 877799 or purehealth.org.uk |
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