NAET

NAET Desensitization Treatment for Environmental Allergens

What is NAET?

NAET is a holistic allergy desensitization treatment that balances the entire body – including, physical, physiological, and emotional functions. If one area of the body is not balanced properly, other areas cannot function normally. This phenomenon often leads to a cascading effect, and can be a possible cause of a person’s health moving from a state of wellness towards disease and illness. According to Oriental medical theory, when body energies are maintained in a balanced state, one does not suffer from health disorders.

Allergic to your cat or your dog? Do you dread the coming of a new season? Is mold or fungus in your house making you sick? Your body’s reaction to these allergies can be resolved with this 30 minute treatment called, NAET. In today’s American health environment, the best that western medicine has to offer allergy sufferers are pharmaceuticals or weekly injections to control symptoms. NAET desensitization is a profoundly different approach to the treatment of allergies. After treatments the patient can be in the presence of the offending substance and no longer experience symptoms or an allergic reaction. The results of this treatment are truly astounding.

NAET (Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Technique) is a synthesis of western and eastern medical disciplines, including allopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, kinesiology, and nutrition. Dr. Nambudripad’s testing technique utilizes Neuromuscular Sensitivity Testing (NST) to determine what allergens are negatively affecting the body. Once kinetic imbalances are identified in the presence of a particular allergen, treatment can begin. According to NAET theory, undiagnosed allergies are the cause of imbalances in the body’s energy pathways. The 12 energy channels which run throughout the body are known in Oriental medicine as meridians. The energy is called Chi – pronounced (chee). When protocol is appropriately followed, before, during, and after NAET treatment, energy blockages in the meridians are removed, and that particular allergen will no longer produce adverse reactions in the body upon future contact.

Before the Treatment

• Wash hands before and after each treatment.

• NAET treatments and acupuncture should not be taken when you are hungry or dehydrated. Eat or have a snack and water prior to scheduled appointments.

• Please bathe before you come for a treatment and wear clean clothing to avoid scents of deodorants, perfumes, smoke, perspiration, aftershave, or hairspray interfering with the testing.

• Remove all jewelry and avoid wearing large crystals, beading, stone, metal, glass or plastic decorations on clothing. No cellular phones, keys, pocket knives, coins during testing and treatment. During each Treatment

• While performing NST (Neuromuscular Sensitivity Tests) the patient should briskly rub hands together for 15-30 seconds between touching samples.

• While receiving NAET desensitization procedures, please make a loose fist with your free hand, and prevent contact between the table and your clothing with your fingertips while testing.

• Do Not cross your hands, legs or ankles. Do Not read or touch other objects with finger tips during the 20 minute treatment.

• Patients should not have any companion with them, standing or sitting within the magnetic field during treatment (usually limited to ~5feet). No children or pets are allowed in the room during treatment unless they are involved in surrogate treatments.

• Do not eat lozenges or chew gum during NAET treatment.

After NAET Desensitization Treatments

In addition, please,

• You must wash your hands with plain water immediately after treatment and vigorously rub hands together for 30 seconds.

• Drink 4-8 bottles of water throughout the evening and day after treatment

• Avoid exposure to extreme hot or cold temperature after the treatment

• Do Not bathe or shower for 6 hours following the treatment

• Do Not exercise vigorously for 6 hours.

• Dr. Davis will ask you to avoid the treated allergen for 25 hours after the completion of treatment in the office. The success of your treatment is dependent upon avoiding eating, touching, breathing, and coming within 5 feet of the substance that was treated.

• Additionally, if someone has a hard time avoiding the allergen for some reason, they should BALANCE Gate Points described below, every 2 hours before and after exposure to the allergen. A parent, spouse, or a patient’s caretaker may massage the Gate Points, if necessary. Self-Balancing Technique using Gate Points.

• The Gate Points are the 8 acupressure points where needles are inserted during your treatment on the hands, arms, inner ankles, and feet. Gentle, circular massage applied consecutively and clockwise to each point until symptoms subside should be used if the patient experiences any discomforting symptoms in the 25 hours after NAET. If you are a highly sensitive person, and the allergen for which you are being treated is very powerful in your system, you may experience some temporarily uncomfortable symptoms – such as, unusual pain anywhere in the body, unusual emotions, aggressive feelings, crying spells, laughing spells, or physical symptoms such as stomach ache, headache, palpitations, itching, etc. (THIS IS RARE, BUT OCCURS IN ~10% OF PATIENTS). Stimulating Gate Points will usually help to calm symptoms until they pass. It may be necessary after your treatment to balance your gates every two hours while awake. Additional balancing points are located midline on the breastbone and midline just below the navel and may also be stimulated by massaging the points simultaneously in a clockwise direction.

• However, during the 25 hours or afterwards, if you get a life-threatening reaction from an allergen, you MUST seek emergency help immediately via 911, from a primary care physician or other emergency facility.


• FOLLOW-UP

• Remember, it is imperative to schedule a follow-up appointment with us for the substance treated anytime after 25 hours, and at least within 10 days to make sure you have completed desensitization.

• FINAL CONSIDERATIONS

• Reschedule your NAET appointment if you are ill, extremely tired or stressed.

• Remind Dr. Davis if you have a history of ANAPHYLAXIS (i.e. swelling of face, airway, itching, hives, palpitations). Please inform him on the very first visit before beginning the testing and treatments. People with a history of this reaction should ALWAYS be treated through a surrogate. These patients are not required to hold the sample during the 20 minute waiting period.

• Prospective NAET patients are encouraged to read Say Good-bye to Your Allergies, by Dr. Devi Nambudripad before beginning treatments.

• You are advised to CONTINUE ALL medications and treatment modalities as they have been prescribed, unless otherwise directed by the doctors who prescribed them. Please do not stop any of your current treatments unless specifically requested to do so for a specific treatment.

• NAET treatments while pregnant HAVE NOT been shown to cause any adverse effects to mother or fetus. In fact, tremendous benefits have been noted, including babies born with substantially fewer allergies compared to siblings who were not exposed to NAET.

• NAET treatments are not advisable during the first three days of the menstrual cycle or anytime when the patient is fatigued, or feeling less than well.

• NAET treatments have NOT been shown to interfere with any other treatments, and it is advisable to continue that which assists your body in getting rid of toxins – you may benefit from other immune system supporting treatments like chiropractic adjustments, massage, yoga, meditation, and massage. There are few methods in healthcare in which a patient is so empowered and shares as much responsibility for a positive outcome as does their doctor. NAET is one of those empowering treatments.