Allergies – a vicious cycle with no way out, or simply solvable by discovering the cause?

By: dr. Kenan Vrca

A hundred years ago, nothing was known about allergies, believe it or not, because they didn't exist at all. You guessed it, their appearance is linked to the deterioration of human immunity and living conditions, and the number of people suffering from allergies is rapidly increasing every year. According to data from the European Academy of Allergies and Clinical Immunology, as many as one billion people worldwide have some form of allergy, and predictions are that by 2050, this number will reach as many as 4 billion of the world's population at that time.

What's worst, official medicine treats allergies very unsuccessfully, or rather, doesn't treat them at all. How many times have you heard from people with an allergic disease that they feel like they are in a vicious cycle with no way out? That no one can help them, that they are inconsolable, and that they have most often lost all hope that one day they can live without allergies?

Unfortunately, official medicine simply "gets patients used" to living with allergies. All prescribed, artificial, and chemical allergy medications work in such a way (if they work at all) that they simply alleviate the symptoms of allergies, until their reappearance.

First of all, official medicine diagnostics for determining allergies are long and arduous for patients. Allergies are determined based on tests for various allergens, most often performed on the skin, which, incidentally, cause side effects in some individuals, and after some time the results are presented – that the patient is usually, lo and behold – "allergic to a large number of different allergens".

Then, various chemical antihistamines are most often prescribed, which of course have their side effects, the worst of which is causing drowsiness in patients. That is why you can most often hear when they are prescribed: "We recommend that you do not consume this if you are driving".

Therefore, in addition to getting used to living with allergies, patients must also give up certain habits or functional needs. Worst of all, by consuming such chemical substances, patients further worsen the condition of their immune system, and thus their health condition.

For more severe and chronic skin allergies, the consumption of even chemical corticosteroids is most often recommended – extremely toxic artificial substances, which, among other things, due to long-term consumption, can also cause diabetes.

At Planet zdravja BH, we view allergies through the prism of integrative medicine, which practically means that the cause, mechanism of onset, development, and therefore therapy of allergies are completely different than in official medicine. According to our integrative medicine method – thermoregulation, we find the origin of allergies in the stomach, one of the pillars of the body in integrative medicine.

How?

First of all, it should be emphasized that patients with any type of allergy have an increased amount of stomach acid, most often so-called extremely increased stomach acid. And everything that happens in the stomach has consequences for a large number of organs and tissues in the body, because it contains the extensions, or rather the endings, of the nerve called "Vagus" – the wanderer, which is also present in many other organs (heart, esophagus, lungs, abdominal blood vessels of the small intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, large intestine, kidneys, bladder, etc.).

The second reason is the cascading chemical reactions that occur in metabolism, as a consequence of increased stomach acid which causes an extremely increased level of histamine in the patient's body. Thus, histamine begins its pathological action depending on where the patient's so-called "locus minoris resistentiae" – or weak point of the body – is located. For some patients, it is the skin, leading to a large number of skin diseases (acute or chronic if the condition is long-term). For others, it is the lungs, leading to asthma, and for others, it is the blood vessels in the head area, leading to headaches or migraines, which usually occur according to a certain monthly rhythm, all due to histamine constricting blood vessels and reducing blood supply to certain parts of the brain.

In addition to the stomach, according to the principles of integrative medicine, the pillars of the body are the thyroid gland and lymph. When diagnosing the causes in patients with allergies, we also pay attention to these organs, given that in chronic allergies, the thyroid gland works at reduced capacity, which affects the clinical picture of patients, while the lymph in all patients with allergies varies from cold – frozen to hot and sluggish. Both conditions are pathological because they do not cleanse the metabolism of patients with allergies, and the health status of allergic patients with such lymph is even more endangered.

We also look at blood acidity in patients with allergies, because such blood is ideal for the development of Candida albicans – a fungus in the blood that can cause more serious illnesses; otherwise, blood acidity is always high in allergies due to the increased amount of the aforementioned histamine in the blood.

Incidentally, patients who have allergies and who visit us are mostly patients with chronic skin diseases – which last a long time, whether it is neurodermatitis, atopic dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, eczema, herpes, acne, etc. Patients with allergic bronchitis and asthma also come.

Therefore, with our thermoregulation method and above all 100% natural cold-pressed oils – we eliminate the cause of allergies, and that is the greatest advantage of integrative medicine for such diseases or body conditions. First, we determine the metabolic state, with our diagnostics using a highly specialized analyzer that measures body temperature at strategic points and in this case reveals the causes of allergies.

The diagnosis is bloodless, safe, and harmless for everyone, and most importantly for patients with allergies – effective and without any side effects. Then we prescribe therapy, or rather advice on how to treat a specific allergy, on 3 levels – dietary advice in accordance with the specific allergy, therapy with 100% natural cold-pressed oils that balance the patient's body and eliminate the causes of allergies, and finally, treatment of the aforementioned lymph.

For patients with skin allergies and skin diseases, we most often recommend a fourth level of therapy, namely our special oil for topical application, at the stage when the metabolism is already balanced, i.e., when we want to improve blood circulation in the skin and remove its consequences in the form of dermatitis.

Therefore, allergies can indeed be eliminated, and long-term at that, thereby improving the patient's health status and enhancing their psycho-physical status; it is only necessary to focus on the causes and not the consequences of this disease, as is ultimately the case with all others.

Until the next issue of this column, dear readers, stay healthy and smiling, or become so, of course, with the wish that you have a happy and healthy New Year's holiday!