Hauptman Allie - Natural treatment of allergies: learn how to treat your allergies with safe, natural methods

Original title: CURACIN NATURAL DE LAS ALERGIAS

2006 by Editorial Ocano, S.L. (Barcelona, Spain)

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ISBN: 978-1-62914-467-2

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Contents

Introduction

Health is within you, and you dont see it;
illness is within you, and you dont realize.

S UFI P ROVERB

These days, allergies complicate the daily life of many people, children and adults alike, and present a challenge for health professionals.

One day, a harmless substance that you regularly encounter in the air, in what you touch, or what you eat, becomes your worst enemy. From this moment on, any future contact with this substance will provoke an allergic reaction, forcing you to change your daily habits in many ways.

Pollen, dust mites, animal dander, mold, foods, certain metals, medicines... All of these things are found in almost every house, and on the street in every town and city. And any one, or ones, of these can be the cause of your asthma, your hay fever, your topical dermatitis, or your food intolerance. You have become an allergic person, and this reality will seem like a life sentence.

This is the feeling that many people who suffer from allergies have, because no one can give them a scientific explanation of this disorder that came out of nowhere, without warning.

Conventional medicine can explain what happens when someone develops an allergy: an error is made by your immune system. But they dont know why it happens.

There seems to be a hereditary component, it seems that the disease itself chooses where to settle, it seems that children grow out of their allergies, but it also seems that they are difficult to cure in adulthood...

One indisputable fact is that allergies are spreading without control, and more people suffer from allergies all the time. Facts show that modern life aids considerably in this, together with, for example, pollution, cigarette smoke, stress, bad health, a sedentary lifestyle, and a lack of exposure to nature. It is not to be overlooked that there is a much greater presence of allergies in urban environments but not so much in rural areas, despite the higher concentrations of pollen, animal dander, mold, and dust mites.

Meanwhile, those who suffer from allergies search for relief and, above all, results. Sometimes this is done using conventional medicine, and other times, more and more often, through natural remedies. The best thing is to know how to take advantage of the benefits of all of these methods and combine conventional and alternative medicines into one single treatment that restores your health through various approaches.

Conventional medicine offers you relief from annoying symptoms with the use of drugs and allergy vaccines. The side effects are inevitable, but the relief is undeniable. And, above all, you should never refuse conventional medicine in serious cases like anaphylactic shock or a bad asthma attack, because it can save your life.

On the other hand, natural therapies offer you the possibility of thoroughly healing yourself. It may seem like an exaggeration, but thousands of years of experience speak to their effectiveness. Naturopathy, homeopathy, acupuncture, Bach flower remedies, yoga, and meditation are some of the ways to reestablish the balance between your body and mind. All of these forms of therapy achieve positive, and even spectacular results when it comes to the treatments of allergies, and you dont have to limit yourself to just one. On the contrary, it has been shown that when you combine them, their synergy augments the benefits and your body recovers much more rapidly.

Nor can we neglect to say that they are not just therapies, but they can provide the backdrop for a new lifestyle where your first priority is your physical and emotional well-being. Sometimes illness becomes the direct route to reconnecting with yourself and emphasizes the importance of the things you have. Through the search for a cure, many people have found themselves, and have found a new meaning in their life.

On this long journey to overcoming illness, we will try to provide you with a roadmap to explain what is happening to you, how it is happening, and what you can do to fix it. This is the goal of the following pages, and we hope that they help you understand what allergies are, what it means to live with them, and how to confront the symptoms and their origins.

What Are Allergies?

Allergies can be defined differently depending on if we look at them through the fields of academic medicine, natural medicine, or traditional Chinese medicine. What we have no doubt about is that it is a growing phenomenon that can create a lot of discomfort and show us that our sophisticated immune system can have inexplicable faults that cause excessive reactions to inoffensive stimuli. According to many experts, the existence of allergies is the price societies in developing countries have to pay, since it is in those places that there are a prolific number of cases.

In effect, what is troublesome is that allergies continue to affect more and more people. The number of people with allergies grows, most of all in industrialized countries. Moreover, there are many people who are not even aware that they are suffering from any ailment. The symptoms multiply and are no longer limited to rhinitis or hay fever, asthma, and eczema, but they can also include fatigue, migraines, depression, dizziness, discomfort, arrhythmias, weight-loss, constipation, diarrhea, rheumatism, and hyperactivity in children.

The most common manifestations of allergies are asthma, rhinitis or hay fever, dermatitis, and food allergies. As their origins are not always clear, treatment through conventional medicine is a very complicated process and is reduced to an attempt to relieve the symptoms produced by the allergic reaction. Because of this, the number of people affected by allergies who seek natural remedies continues to grow; these are remedies that treat the person rather than focusing on the illness. Alternative therapies intend to regain the balance within our bodies and help restore the immune systems correct function. In many cases, the results are surprising.