“Can acupuncture help with food allergies?”
I have food allergies and want to treat them. Can acupuncture help with food allergies?
8 Answers
Acupuncture and herbs can help relieve your food allergies gradually.
Yes
yes. I encourage you to book a session with your practitioner of choice to get help with relief.
Lejla Fazlicic
Acupuncturist
Yes it can help you to improve your symptoms.
There is a system called NAET that can supposedly remove allergies of all kinds. Check with your local acupuncturist to find out if they use the system and to find out more about it. I have heard mixed results about it.
Yes, especially a practitioner who practices the NAET technique.
Warmly,
Natalie Ramsey, MS LAc
Warmly,
Natalie Ramsey, MS LAc
Yes, acupuncture can help with food allergies.
The absolute best thing for food allergies is to not eat foods to which you are allergic - assuming you've identified the offending items. Whether or not acupuncture is going to provide any benefit is going to depend a lot on the severity of the allergy and how good you are at minimizing intake of the offending item.
For mild to moderate allergies, if patients can remove the item from your diet for 6-8 weeks and use acupuncture to down-regulate their immune system, sometimes they can return to eating that food item in limited amounts.
For severe allergies, like an anaphylactic type reaction, acupuncture is going to be much less useful. Patients in this case are looking at long term exclusion of the food item.
Please keep in mind that food allergies appear to be sitting at the base of at least some chronic diseases. There's some evidence that Parkinson's might start as a gut flora imbalance probably driven by food. There appears to be some sort of connection between Hashimoto's thyroiditis and gluten sensitivity. I understand that people don't like to give things up, especially when it comes to foods, but the reality is they could be saving themselves a lot of time, money, and anguish down the road.
For mild to moderate allergies, if patients can remove the item from your diet for 6-8 weeks and use acupuncture to down-regulate their immune system, sometimes they can return to eating that food item in limited amounts.
For severe allergies, like an anaphylactic type reaction, acupuncture is going to be much less useful. Patients in this case are looking at long term exclusion of the food item.
Please keep in mind that food allergies appear to be sitting at the base of at least some chronic diseases. There's some evidence that Parkinson's might start as a gut flora imbalance probably driven by food. There appears to be some sort of connection between Hashimoto's thyroiditis and gluten sensitivity. I understand that people don't like to give things up, especially when it comes to foods, but the reality is they could be saving themselves a lot of time, money, and anguish down the road.
