How to Naturally Get Rid of Allergies

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How to Naturally Get Rid of Allergies

 

Allergies 2

 

I regularly annoy a few people because I don't believe

in allergies. Neither does most of

human history, for allergies appear to be a rather

modern disease, only showing up in force during the

last few generations. One might argue that other,

more serious diseases had overshadowed allergies in

the past, and that diagnostic methods are now so

improved that more allergies are noticed.

 

Cow cookies. Do you really think that the human race

would have evolved at all if we had to turn around and

sneeze every time we walked by some ragweed? Do you

honestly believe that man's earliest response to a

dust storm was to SNEEZE? How many cave men do you

suppose, while running away from a lion or tiger, had

to stop to wipe their eyes and nose because they were

allergic to cat fur? Oh, come now. Those that did

were eaten, and their allergy died with them.

 

Evolution would not favor allergies, but modern

disease care does. There's money in them thar noses.

There actually are true allergies: the best example

would be what happens if you give a blood type A

person type B blood. But nine times out of ten what

is called an " allergy " is a hypersensitivity to

substances because of a weak and poorly nourished

body. That is a naturopathic view of the subject.

 

It is simplistic, yet provable. Some easy ways to

test my theory are:

 

1) Avoid artificial colors, flavors and preservatives

in your food. Paint, industrial chemicals, and

microbe-killers may get a very natural reaction from a

healthy body, let alone a weakened one. May I

suggest you take a look at Why Your Child is

Hyperactive, by Benjamin F. Feingold, M.D., if you'd

like a second medical opinion.

 

2) Stop eating " deli meats " , especially cold cuts,

hot dogs, and other preserved meats. I know a

fellow that had chronic skin rashes. They went away

in days when he simply stopped eating the above.

Was it the nitrites? Might be, but who cares! The

rashes vanished when the hot dogs did. " What kind

of kid eats hot dogs? " Kids with allergies, that's

who. " Even kids with chicken pox. " It figures.

 

3) Stop eating other meats, too. Regrettably,

feedlot animals are raised with a steady diet

generously fortified with antibiotics and hormones.

Don't try to kid me on this one: in earlier years I

milked 120 head of Holsteins twice daily and I know a

bit about cattle. Do you suppose that some " allergic "

folks are just naturally reacting to foreign chemicals

inevitably found in animal flesh?

 

4) If you'll do the above, you are virtually a

vegetarian. Very few vegetarians have allergies.

Vegetarians get much more fiber (average of 50 grams

daily versus only 10 to 15 grams in the Standard

American Diet (yes, what a lot of folks eat is pretty

SAD). Vegetarians eat more legumes (peas, beans and

lentils), more whole grains, more vitamin-rich fruits

and vegetables, and more high-quality protein foods

such as sprouts and tofu. This diet is going to do a

lot more good than just help obliterate allergies.

 

5) Vitamin C in large doses is an excellent

antihistamine and antitoxin. There is abundant

medical evidence to support this, and much value will

be found in the hundreds of controlled studies cited

in The Healing Factor, by Irwin Stone; How To Live

Longer and Feel Better, by Dr. Linus Pauling, and the

many papers of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. summarized

in Clinical Uses of Vitamin C, edited by Lendon Smith,

M.D. You may remember Dr. Smith as the " Children's

Doctor on the TODAY show).

 

To illustrate, consider the potentially deadly allergy

to bee stings. That must be the ultimate in histamine

reactions, where the breathing passages close up to

the point of suffocation. I do not recommend this,

but I do know a person who had such an allergy and

immediately after being stung took 25,000 mg of

vitamin C. By the end of the day he'd taken about

100,000 mg. He did not take his medicine or use his

inhaler. He had no symptoms at all. To me, this is a

genuinely amazing episode, one which I would not

suggest repeating. So why mention it at all? Because

compared to this, what's a stuffy nose?

 

6) I'm told that ex-President Reagan's allergist

simply told Ron to drink a good bit more water to

relieve allergies. There's a good idea in general,

and it's drug-free.

 

7) Are there pressure points for allergies? Sure.

In The Natural Healer's Acupressure Manual, author

Michael Blate describes several that are worth a try.

 

8) Is lactose intolerance really a milk allergy?

Maybe not. For many, a simple solution is to eat

yogurt, kefir, aged cheeses, or other cultured milk

products. These dairy products contain friendly

bacteria that do a lot of our digesting for us.

Pasteurized milk does not have these helpful

microorganisms. I therefore think fluid milk is the

least desirable dairy product of all. (My children's

mother works for a large dairy corporation, so I hope

she's reading something else right now.) The majority

of supposedly lactose intolerant people actually

aren't, and can eat ice cream or even moderate amounts

of milk with meals. In fact about two-thirds of

supposedly lactose intolerant persons do not prove to

be so when they have a breath-hydrogen assay.

(Williams, Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 7th edition,

page 41). Lactase production in humans decreases

after age 5, and in other mammals it disappears not

long after birth. Is this perhaps simply biochemical

weaning? It does lend some credibility to a vegan

(dairy-free) diet for older children and adults.

Lactose intolerance may be mostly due to a poor colon

bacteria environment which makes it tough to properly

digest many foods. More fiber and less meat in your

diet lessens constipation and will enhance your

intestinal population of helpful bacteria. Did you

know that about ONE HALF of a human bowel movement is

composed of bacteria? That's a lot of critters that

are so small that you need a 1200 power microscope to

see even one.

 

If you try all these alternatives and still have

symptoms, even I would concede

that you might well have a real allergy. But most

people don't.

 

 

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