Allergy de-sensitising clinic
For allergies like dust, cat or dog fur/hair, smoke as well as hayfever etc, isopathic and sarcode treatment in this clinic aims to minimise the histamine reaction in the body, as well as providing therapeutic remedies to help during acute allergy attacks.
Several double-blind, placebo-controlled studies on homeopathic remedies for hayfever have yielded positive results. The best evidence at present is for isopathic remedies.
ISOPATHY
Isopathy makes use of the precise substance that causes your symptoms, diluting the allergen to make a homeopathic remedy. For example, if you are allergic to cats, you may be prescribed a homeopathic remedy out of cat dander; if to ragweed, diluted ragweed pollen would be an appropriate isopathic remedy. This is different from standard homeopathic remedies.
DOUBLE-BLIND PLACEBO TRIALS
Two studies tested the effects of a combination isopathic preparation consisting of mixed grass pollens at a 30c potency on almost 200 people with active hayfever.1,2 Overall, the results were positive. Homeopathic treatment, as compared to placebo, produced a clear and measurable reduction in hayfever symptoms over a two-week period of treatment. In addition, improvement of the treated participants continued even after they stopped taking the medicine.
Another double-blind, placebo-controlled trial used isopathic remedies made from allergens specific to each participant. 3 All 50 participants suffered from perennial allergic rhinitis. Again, the results were positive.
Furthermore, benefits were seen regarding allergic asthma in a small, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial using an isopathic remedy made from allergens specific to the participants.4
ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK
Please note that, if you have ever suffered an anaphylactic reaction, we cannot prescribe the allergy de-sensitising protocol using a homeopathic form of the allergen you react to although we can still prescribe constitutional and deeper miasmatic treatment aimed at reducing your body’s sensitivity to the allergen.
REFERENCES
- Reilly DT, Taylor MA. Potent placebo or potency? Br Homeopath J . 1985;74:65–75.
- Reilly DT, Taylor MA, McSharry C, et al. Is homoeopathy a placebo response? Controlled trial of homoeopathic potency, with pollen in hayfever as model. Lancet . 1986;2:881–886.
- Taylor MA, Reilly D, Llewellyn-Jones RH, et al. Randomised controlled trial of homoeopathy versus placebo in perennial allergic rhinitis with overview of four trial series. BMJ . 2000;321:471–476.
- Reilly D, Taylor MA, Beattie NGM, et al. Is evidence for homoeopathy reproducible?. Lancet . 1994;344:1601–1606.