Break free from your allergy

Review

REVIEWD by: Vatsala Sperling on hpathy.com

If anything, the allergies have become very common. Allergy inducers are many. Mostly our immune system throws a tantrum when it encounters something so alien and toxic that it cannot but elicit an allergic response. Any book that can show us how to get out of this toxic loop is worth reading.

This book, “Break free from your allergy with the 5 biological laws of nature” begins with cured cases. But here is the interesting part! Each of these cases, by way of timeline, have originated around a traumatic event:

Apple allergy in a 5-year-old --- Mother of a five-year-old gets something sharp in her eyes. She must get it looked at in a hospital. She asks a friendly neighbor to baby sit her child. The neighbor offers the child neatly sliced apple. Right away the child develops swollen lips from eating the sliced apple. 

Pollen allergy in a 3-year-old---while starting school in Spring he finds it traumatic to separate from his mother, but he must---and then he develops Hay fever symptoms every Spring.

Likewise, in other cases too, Johan has traced the beginning of the allergy symptoms to an experience of trauma. He postulates that if we are fortunate enough to survive a traumatic event, the reptilian (primitive) part of our brain keeps a trauma hologram of the images, sounds, smells, taste, and tactile impressions of the trauma.

Such a memory has a survival advantage as we can respond with total alertness when a similar threatening situation arises in the future. In this logic, the allergy symptoms are but a warning signal of an event that has been traumatic to us, we are not “oversensitive” to the substance, but to the deadly association with it.

Avoidance of the substance helps us somewhat in curtailing the symptoms, but collectively, if we shift our focus to finding the traumatic event at the root of when the allergies began, and the associated memory of image, taste, smell, sound, and tactile impression, we will have better success in curing allergies. Simply, the danger is over, and we need not bring up an allergy response. I assume, this is what he means by saying, “Once the old ghost is understood and released, the complaints are immediately gone.”

What are the characteristics of trauma hologram – we need to know this specially because it gives rise to completely automatic thought-free and lightning-quick body reactions. Individual sensitivity determines which organ will express an allergic response.

For understanding trauma hologram, the author explains autonomic nervous system briefly, and elaborates on the territory, skin (feeling), eyes (seeing), nose (smelling), airways (sound), and intestine (nutrient absorption) and explains how trauma can be locked into these organs.

Our sympathetic nervous system is responsible for calling upon the trauma holograms stored in our brain, and we can then mount an allergic response to whatever is threatening to us. So, in fact, allergies can be seen as healing phase that are to be supported, and not suppressed. They will go away when the provocative shock / stressful situation is eliminated.

The technique Johan uses for this elimination process is “Emotional freedom technique, (EFT)”. EFT is associated with the meridians described in the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Details are given in the chapter 17. As an example, he brings back the case of the boy who had developed allergy to apples.

The summary is, John was 5 years old – mommy got something sharp in her eyes - she dropped John off with neighbors - she went to the hospital to get her eyes seen - neighbors offered John an apple - John developed severe allergy to apples. EFT tapping on the meridian is done while recalling the trauma of “mommy gone”.

As an exercise to be done at home, Johan suggests that the mother and son sit together in the evening, mother cuts and apple and the son eats it – all the while realizing that there is really no association between an apple and his “mommy gone” trauma. SIMPLE.

Chapter 18 comprises of 44 brief cases of allergy to apples, scampi, salmon, egg, milk, gluten, corn, nuts, garlic, wine, hay, pollen, mold, dust, cat, dog, horse, parrot, metal, latex, benzene, soap, son, suntan lotion, wind, fire, smoke, sound, and color.

Turns out, avoidance of an allergen serves only so much. However, when a trauma hologram is visited, tapping is done on the meridians, and the person is given a safe space for releasing his emotions around his trauma using EFT and Rescue Remedy; then within a session or two, the allergy sufferer is free from has his allergies.

Though Johan Denis has not described using any homeopathic remedies for releasing trauma, the case taking technique of retracing the timeline and probing into the point when a traumatic event could have occurred, is quite like a homeopathic case taking. Homeopaths can easily learn how to perform tapping for Emotional Freedom (research the work of Gary Craig), and the meridian system as described in Traditional Chinese Medicine. This method, EFT on the meridians, is yet another tool that can be deployed for helping our patients who suffer from allergies.

Thank you, Dr. Johan Denis, for writing this simple and very useful book in service of all those who suffer from allergies.