Spring, for many, is the best season of the year mainly because we get to experience once more the warmth and sunshine that fall and winter have hidden. We also get to enjoy again picnics and the beautiful flowers; the worst thing about winter, though, is that it brings on seasonal allergies. Over-the-counter and prescription medications are widely available, but they are mere allergy symptom relievers and do nothing to help prevent allergies from reoccurring or aid a person’s overall health, plus they have serious side effects. Other more natural therapies such as acupuncture offer far better benefits like enhancing your overall health, treating the underlying root of your allergies, putting your body back into balance and treating your allergy symptoms.

Seasonal allergies occur when a person gets affected by the pollen of weeds, grasses and flowers in trees causing symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, runny nose, sneezing and itchy eyes.

As mentioned a short while ago, pharmaceutical medicines, over-the-counter or prescription, come with a number of side effects. They may include stomach pain, wheezing, fatigue and headache. Moreover, some of these allergy drugs can make you eventually dependent on them. When you have allergies, it is a sure sign that your immune system has an imbalance. Reinforcing and balancing the body is one great way to lessen or even cure you of seasonal allergies altogether.

The following are great tips to help you prevent allergy:

During the warmer months, consume more raw foods. This helps your body get tuned in with the seasons as well as enable your body to function optimally.

Homeopathic remedy for allergy – homeopathy uses the vibration of your symptoms and match it with the vibration of a particular remedy. When the vibrations between the treatment and disorder match, they cancel the symptoms out enabling you to recover from them.

Mineral/ multivitamin supplement – you can take them regularly to ensure the optimal functioning of your body.

Eat local honey – if you are not allergic to them, eating bee pollens and honey can be good for your body’s health. Honey helps the body in a way that when your body is exposed to the environment, your immune system does not react easily to specific elements in your body.

Eat local, seasonal foods – eating these types of foods will keep you in balance and tune in with the regular cycles around you.

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Treating Allergies with Acupuncture

One of the more effective treatments for the symptoms of seasonal allergies is acupuncture. This therapy also helps restore the body’s internal equilibrium that can help prevent the rise of allergies in the future.

The two ways in which acupuncture helps treat allergies:

Acupuncture restores balance in the body
It relieves allergy symptoms like fatigue, headaches, stuffiness  and itchy eyes

Treatment of Allergy Symptoms

Different allergy symptoms are found above the neck (itchy eyes, headache stuffiness, etc.) According to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), energy in the body is not flowing smoothly from the head into the rest of the body, and vice versa. The direction of the yang meridians is from the head down to the feet or from the hands up to the head.  The energy vessels or meridians need to be clear off blockages to allow the uninterrupted flow of qi (vital energy) in the neck and shoulders.

Acupuncture therapy resolves the symptoms of allergy in a very local way: the insertion of sterile and very thin needles on points on the body on the side or the head or nose help remove the blockages in the meridians and enable qi to circulate smoothly around the body.

Root Therapies

Besides treating the symptoms of your allergy and its underlying cause, acupuncture also improves the general well-being of your body. Before treating you with needles, your acupuncturist will ask a number of questions about your health history and your symptoms. Then, he does a thorough and specific physical evaluation of your pulse and tongue.  Based on his findings, he will diagnose you and create a plan of treatment that considers your symptoms and your own unique constitution. After that he needles the affected acupuncture points in your body bringing your body in balance and treating both symptoms and their underlying cause. The symptoms thus disappear and health is restored once more. Regaining a person’s internal balance is one of the greatest benefits of acupuncture as it means you attain balance emotionally, mentally and physically.

Health Source Acupuncture
401 New Rd #211
Linwood, NJ 08221
Phone: (609) 248-6922
www.healthsourceacupuncture.com