In Allergy Awareness Week 20th – 26th April, find out how our natural remedy and acupuncture can ease your hay fever symptoms.
Chinese Medicine Approach
1 in 4 of us suffer from hay fever. Some may suffer more from tree pollen, others from flower pollen. But from the Chinese medicine perspective, it is not the pollen that is the issue, but our immune system over-reacting to it.
When our body detects the foreign pollen particles, it creates an immune reaction by triggering histamines. These histamines are what cause the symptoms of hay fever. So as such, our herbal tincture and acupuncture will help with all types of pollen reaction.
Power of Acupuncture
Clinical studies have shown that acupuncture has a comparable effect to over-the-counter medication but without any adverse effects.
The British Acupuncture Council sets out how acupuncture treats hay fever.
This includes:
- regulating your body’s allergic reaction to extrinsic allergens
- stimulating nerves in the muscles and other tissues to release endorphins, which helps you to better cope with the emotional impact of the symptoms
- reducing inflammation
- enhancing natural killer cell activities to regulate the immune system reaction
- increasing local microcirculation, which aids dispersal of swelling.
All of our six Acupuncturists are skilled at providing treatment that will work to alleviate the specific hay fever symptoms you are suffering from.
If you haven’t yet started with symptoms, many people also book in for acupuncture prior to their hay fever season, as a preventative measure.
Hay Fever Remedy
Use our specially designed Herbal Flower Tincture to treat symptoms of sneezing, runny and stuffy nose, itchy eyes, dry, itchy or sore throat, and sleepiness and fatigue.