What is it?

NAET was invented by Dr Devi Nambudripad. She was born in India and moved to the US in the 1970s. From birth, she suffered from severe allergies and subsisted for years on a diet of white rice and broccoli to control her symptoms. On her quest to find help, she trained in medicine herself, first as a registered nurse and later as a doctor and an acupuncturist. 

She has a PhD in oriental medicine, is a qualified chiropractor and kinesiologist. In 1983, still trying to find an answer to her own allergies, she combined several of the techniques she’d learned and pretty much stumbled onto the solution. 

A clash of energies

Dr Devi does not see ‘allergy’ in the same terms as Western medicine, but from an Eastern medical perspective - as a sort of ‘clash’ between the energies of the substance and the person. 
We are all energetic beings and everything on earth has its own energetic fingerprint and electromagnetic field. Sometimes, these energies can affect one another adversely and cause blockages along our own energy meridians which, in turn, can affect the functioning of our organs and systems. 

Brain confusion

It seems that the brain perceives a substance wrongly and sort of mis-categorises it, thinking of it as a threat. It then mobilises the immune system against the intruder and the normal allergic reactions result. Why the brain does this is still a mystery, although Dr Devi does hypothesise that it could be due to cellular mutation or damage that has taken place over generations and/or as a result of the changing toxins in the environment.

 

‘Rebooting’ the brain

As Dr Devi developed this theory, she discovered that if the roots of the sympathetic nervous system along the spine are stimulated, the brain will receive messages that enable it to correct its faulty perception of the substance. I think of this like a computer having a virus and the treatment rebooting the brain after a virus software update! 
Once the short treatment is complete, further acupuncture points are stimulated, the patient is allowed to rest and then has to avoid contact with the allergen for 25 hours. After this, the ‘clash’ of energies should have gone and there should be no further reaction to the allergen.

Practitioner experience

This technique has been developed and used for over 20 years in the US, with great success. It has only recently been taught to practitioners across Europe and there are so far around 50 or so practising therapists in the UK.


Clearing basic allergens

Every patient is tested and treated for any allergen found first. (I use the MRT muscle testing technique – an adapted form of kinesiology.) These allergens are the basic building blocks for the body to work properly and later, deeper and more complex treatments are more likely to be successful after these ‘basics’ have been cleared.

 

The basic allergens include things like B complex, minerals and sugars. The list has been developed over the years as being the most common and those that need to be cleared for true health. 
Most people find their health has improved significantly by clearing their ‘basics’ and I have even found that people’s allergies to other substances clear as a result of clearing one or two basic allergens. For example, a wheat allergy could clear because the person was allergic to B vitamins within the grain. Or it may be that if you clear a really important allergy for you, all of the others clear as a result. 

 

                                                                                                        

For more information on NAET or your nearest practitioner, go

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to https://www.naet.com

or read Dr Devi Nambudripad’s book

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"Say Goodbye To Illness".

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First Published in 2006