The Discovery of the Method
I had been suffering from hay fever for many years. Based on various observations and experiences I slowly became aware that the allergy can be influenced by psychic dispositions and mental processes.
I have been doing several years of research in cognitive science (psychology, neurosciences, artificial intelligence), including a doctoral dissertation. I now work in a different area, but I am still very interested in mental and brain processes. Thus, I made some experiments with my hay fever.
allergoSTOP is a result of those experiments - a quite astounding method to stop allergies.
Scientific Evidence
Hay fever is commonly explained as an overreaction of the body's immune system. This view is insuffient since it does not consider the fact that there are associations and mutual dependencies between the immune system and the brain. There is substantial evidence for potentially very thight coupling between mental processes and allergic reactions. This makes it plausible that the brain indeed can significantly influence allergic reactions.
The medical literature of as early as 1886 reports quite an amusing case: a patient with a strong rose allergy showed all symptoms of allergic reactions triggered by an artificial rose in the doctor's office.[3] Nowadays, we know that principal organs of the immune system are linked to the brain by nerve cells and chemical substances. Furthermore, it has been shown that - similar to Pavlov's dogs in his classical conditioning scenarios - allergic reactions (including the release of histamines) may be acquired as responses to totally innocent stimuli (like, e.g., an odor).[1],[4]
I conceive the overreaction in case of an allergy as resulting from a learned (conditioned) inadequate, "alarmistic", behavior of neural circuitry. To heal means to stop and to unlearn this behavior. The allergoSTOP method is remarkable for allowing a rapid stopping of the reaction with little effort.
References
- Conditioning Rhinitis in Allergic Humans. J. E. BARRETT, M. G. KING, and G. PANG (2000), Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 917, 853-859
- Behavioral Conditioning of Antihistamine Effects in Patients with Allergic Rhinitis. M. U. Goebel, N. Meykadeh, W. Kou, M. Schedlowski, and U. R. Hengge (2008), Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2008;77:227-234 (DOI: 10.1159/000126074)
- The Production of the So-Called ‘Rose Cold’ by Means of an Artificial Rose. J. MacKenzie (1886), American Journal of Medical Science, 91, 1886: 45-57
- Learned Histamine Release. M. Russell, K. Dark et al (1984), Science Vol. 225, August 17, 1984, pp. 733-734
