There truly is nothing new under the sun.  At times when I read “medical research,” it is often only resurfaced wisdom.  I tend to think it is ‘ego’ at work, to claim your work as “new”.  When it is not new.  The idea of small doses has been in use that we know of for hundreds of years, it is a cornerstone of homeopathic treatment, homeopathy uses infinitesimally small doses.

Isopathy prescribes a remedy made from the causative agent or products of a disease from the same disease or substance. In this research, to treat the food allergies small substances were used of the allergen are used.  Hahnemann spoke of the isopathic method and credits any success due to the simillum, but argues against this approach for various reasons.

Eliminating the Aggravation

This is a brief excerpt as to how tolerance to the allergen is ameliorated.

The starting doses were very small, as little as 1/1000th of a peanut. The doses increased until the children ate the equivalent of up to 15 peanuts a day about 10 months later, and then they stayed on the daily therapy while they were monitored.

The researchers of course suggest that this is a highly refined approach, left to trained professionals.  Read the article below and check out the link to learn more about their work.
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Exposure to Peanuts May Build Tolerance to Allergy

The therapy is still experimental, and more research is needed, study says

Doctors may have found an unlikely remedy for some peanut allergies.

Teams at Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children’s Hospital gave nearly microscopic pieces of peanut to a group of about 30 children with non-life-threatening peanut allergies daily.

After two years, nine kids were still able to tolerate the treatment, and four appeared to be completely allergy-free.

The researchers say this is the first study to show limited exposure can help someone with a food allergy become tolerant of that food. Read more at arkansasmatters.com.

In my view there are valid reasons why this may be, of which none are considered in the article. If you or a family member are suffering from allergies perhaps some of the triggers could be:

• Consider that newborn infants are subjected to a multiple vaccines at birth, before the immune system has had a chance to develop.
• Consider, if you eat meat, many animals are raised with a constant diet of anti-biotic drugs. There is a residue of this which is in the meat.
• Consider that many people under age 50, have not been sick in way that fosters natural immunity…those childhood diseases that people seem to be terrified of these days.
• Consider, how often do you interact outdoors? Are you outdoors for thirty to sixty minutes a day? How often?
• Are you on a daily medication?
• There are many, many chemicals that we interact with, which our ancestors did not. Many of these chemicals have not been studied from the perspective of these many multiple reactions.
• Pesticides sprayed on our food crops.
• Much of the cotton, corn and wheat crop in the United States have been modified by gene technology in particular with the bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis. It is not known how this effects the population.
• Artificial colors, artificial flavors that are in many processed foods.
• There are some that scoff at the need to fast, cleanse or otherwise detox the body, but if you consider that the above list just by itself is rather large and complex as to how the immune system has to process all of these myriad combinations.

Thoughts: When it comes to health care, education is important and a broad, insightful view may come from beyond what the acknowledged “experts” say.