Treating Allergies with F.X. Mayr Therapy E-Book

Harald Stossier

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2003

Beschreibung

Treat allergies naturally

Written by a leading practitioner of the groundbreaking F.X. Mayr cure, which equates allergic reactions with poor digestive health and accumulated toxins, this new book discusses how this innovative approach can be applied to allergy treatment.

This compact book is filled with numerous clinical examples and practical tips on improving treatment outcomes, and covers everything from the fundamental principles of allergy to the role of the digestive system. The full spectrum of the Mayr program is explored, including descriptions of water-tea fasting, milk-bread roll diets, patient training and education, practical tips for individual allergy symptoms such as migraine headaches and rheumatic complaints, and more!

Here is the modern approach to treating allergic medicine using groundbreaking FX Mayr guidelines. Anyone interested in treating asthma and allergies naturally - pediatricians, general practitioners, internists, allergists, pulmonologists, and alternative medicine practitioners - will want this landmark text in their library.

Leseprobe

Treating Allergies with F.X. Mayr Therapy

Mobilizing the Body's Self-healing powers

Harald Stossier, M.D.Medical DirectorGolfhotel Health CenterWöorthersee, Austria

21 Illustrations

ThiemeStuttgart · New York

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This book is an authorized translation of the German edition published and copyrighted 2001 by Karl F. Haug Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany. Title of the German edition: Allergien erfolgreich behandeln mit der F. X. Mayr-Kur

Translated by Elaine Buchanan, Maria Rain, Austria Translation edited by Johanna Cummings-Pertl.

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Contents

Introduction

What’s an Allergy?

Stress Response According to Selye

Base Substance as Reaction Site for Allergies

Allergy Characteristics

Inflammation as Allergy Indicator

Allergy Types

Pseudoallergies

Cross-Allergies

Histamine Intolerance

Carbohydrate Intolerance

Fructose Intolerance

Lactose Intolerance

Digestion and Allergies

Digestive Performance

Constitution

Fluctuations Related to Time of Day

Link between Intestinal Autointoxification and Allergic Reactions

Dysbiosis, Candidiasis, Parasites

Candidiasis

Parasites

Lymph System and Allergies

How the Lymph System Works

Effects of Radix Edema

F.X. Mayr Diagnostics

Diagnostics of Health

Role of the Abdomen in Mayr Diagnostics

Recognizing Allergies/Intolerance

Classic Allergy Diagnostics

Laboratory Tests

Provocation Tests

Lymphocyte Transformation Test

Histamine Release Test

F.X. Mayr Diagnostics

Applied Kinesiology

Muscle Testing as a Central Source of Information

Possible Results of Muscle Testing

AK Testing Application

Allergy Therapy Opportunities

Basic Principles of Modern Mayr Medicine

Key Concepts of F.X. Mayr Therapy™

Mayr Therapy is Accomplished by the Patient!

Therapeutic Principles of Mayr Therapy: Rest and Simplification, Cleansing, Training, Substitution

Rest and Simplification

Cleansing

Training

Supplementation

Orthomolecular Medicine

Practical Application of Mayr Therapy for Treating Allergies/Intolerances

Addressing Individual Needs

Basic Principles of F.X. Mayr Therapy

Water/Tea Fasting

Milk/Bread Roll Diet

Extended Milk/Bread Roll Diet

Mild Clearing Diet™

Chronological Sequence of Mayr Therapy for Allergies

Supportive Measures

Practical Tips for Allergy Treatment

Pollinosis, Neurodermatitis, Bronchial Asthma

How Mayr Therapy Can Help

Heart–Circulatory Complaints

Migraines, Headaches

Disorders of the Digestive System

Rheumatic Disorders, Arthritis

Menstrual Disorders (Dysmenorrhea)

Pregnancy

Allergies and Sports Injuries

Conclusions for Everyday Living from the Ideas of Modern Mayr Medicine

Good Health through Living with Full Awareness following F.X. Mayr Therapy

Appendix

About the Author

Addresses

Introduction

Allergies have been increasing for years. We can assume that today, one out of five people have allergies with varying symptoms such as:

Hay fever in SpringAsthmaItching skin conditions, rashes or excemaJoint disorders, andDigestive system disorders.

In many cases, a doctor may be able to diagnose an allergy, but much more often, neither the patient nor the doctor considers allergies as the cause of these disorders.

The importance of correctly diagnosing and treating allergies and food intolerances becomes even more obvious when one considers that a link may exist between allergies and alertness, motor activity, sexuality, and food intake. Hyperactivity in children and addiction to certain foods may also be linked to allergies. The same applies to intestinal cramps and cramps of the uterus and other hollow organs. This book provides information for successfully diagnosing and treating allergies and food intolerances.

In recent years, there have been frequent reports of athletes who were able to improve their performance by changing their diets. They achieved these improvements primarily by identifying and omitting foods from their diets that they did not tolerate well. As you read this, you may be thinking that athletes are not like most of us, because they have to achieve peak performance under exceptional conditions of extreme stress.

However, almost everyone can get into stress situations in their daily life that are very similar to those of an athlete competing in an event. We are frequently expected to achieve top performance in our professional and private lives. We even expect such performance from our children and other young people. It should not be surprising that the capacity of our bodies to compensate for such stresses is overtaxed in these situations.

Allopathic medicine has developed precise biochemical concepts for allergies. They clearly define how our metabolism responds, which chemical processes take place, which symptoms are to be expected, and also which therapies are available. Many people, however, do not fit these standard concepts, and their symptoms cannot be explained by them. The following chapters will introduce an expanded concept of allergies, and will illustrate how lifestyle factors can contribute to an increase in allergies.

Allergies are not only a reaction to external substances in genetically predisposed individuals; they also develop as a result of our lifestyle and habits. A major contributor to the development of allergies is the environment, which has changed as a result of our carelessness, and contains many chemical and physically harmful pollutants and irritants. Other contributing factors include our nutritional situation, imbalances in the types of food we eat, and a general lack of healthy eating habits.

This book shows practical ways out of this situation. Change begins in our head, in this case by recognizing our own situation. The next step is to translate this recognition into action. Once we understand our situation, we can more easily overcome challenges to our own health. Changing our way of life can result in decisive improvements for those of us suffering from allergies and its many symptoms. Even if your symptoms do not fit the classic definition of allergies as you know it, we encourage you to read this book. You may be surprised at what you discover about your own health.

What’s an Allergy?

The term allergy was coined by the Viennese pediatrician, Dr. Clemens von Pirquet, in 1906. The term originally described the response of the immune system to initial contact with an antigen—a substance that causes an allergic reaction. Pirquet’s use of the term included both protective immunity (a beneficial effect) and hypersensitivity or allergic reactions. With increasing knowledge of the biochemical processes involved, the term has come to describe only the hypersensitivity, or over-reaction, of the immune system.

Allergies are part of the adaptation potential of our immune system. They are bound to the same complex processes that our immune system employs to safeguard the integrity of the body. Without our immune system, we would not have suitable defenses against foreign substances of any kind. Let’s take the case of a minor infection caused by a virus or bacteria. It necessitates a fast response and intervention by our immune system to prevent damage to our body. Many organs and much of our tissues are involved in this response. Think, for example, of a runny nose, or a swollen throat, as in the case of a cold or flu. Our body’s defensive response is subject to numerous biochemical processes. Here is an illustration:

When foreign substance, also called an antigen, enters our body, our immune system responds. It renders the antigen harmless by various means. Which brings us to two important points:

Antigens are mostly protein structuresOur immune system has a memory

The second point is significant because, thanks to our immune system, we only suffer certain illnesses once, for example measles and other typical childhood diseases. Our immune system remembers its initial contact with antigen, and can draw on this memory to fight future “invaders” of the same kind. This is the upside of our immune system’s memory. The downside is that our immune system’s memory of its initial contact with an allergen (a substance that triggers an allergy) can lead to rapid over-reaction every time our body is subsequently exposed to the same allergen.

Patient History

Patient H.S., male, age 44

Symptom: a heavy cold for approximately 6 months, sometimes itching skin and a slight rash. Can eat everything, although the patient has the feeling that his condition sometimes worsens after eating.

Various allergy tests showed no indication of an allergy. Cortisone helps considerably, but is rejected as a long term solution by the patient. Six months before onset of the symptoms, he spent a holiday in Italy, which was where his problems started.

Mayr Diagnostics: reveals enlarged abdomen with indication of inflammation in the small intestine, flatulence, and an enlarged liver.Food Test Results: reveals an intolerance to wheat.

Mayr Therapy: during which, of course, all products containing wheat are omitted. As a result, the patient’s cold cleared up completely within 10 days. Regarding the wheat intolerance, a waiting period of 6 months is necessary, during which time various mineral substances will be supplemented.

Our immune system is spread throughout our entire body, which makes sense when we consider that every cell in our body needs to be protected from foreign invasions. This means that the symptoms produced by a immune system response can be very diverse, despite the fact that the bio-chemical processes involved are relatively uniform. These symptoms depend primarily on the location of contact with the allergen in our body, although other factors play a role in determining where the allergy symptoms occur.

The biochemical tools our immune system employs to eliminate foreign substances from our body are essentially those related to inflammation. Blood circulation to the organs or tissues involved is increased, and the region becomes more permeable. This transports more fluids to the area, and recruits enzymes from our white blood cells in an attempt to digest the intruder. This results in a warming or reddening of the area (which can sometimes be visible on the skin surface), and pain may develop. This normal response of our immune system is also known as normergy (defines a normal process as opposed to the overreaction that results from an allergy).

Stress Response According to Selye

Before we turn our attention to allergic reactions in detail, let’s re-emphasize that our immune system’s response to stimuli is an essential part of life. Our body needs to be able to correctly identify, process and respond to such stimuli in a series of characteristic phases, and this is a distinctive feature of a healthy body. All body cells can be adequately stimulated. Selye, generally called the “Father of the Stress Field”, refers to this series of stages as a stress response.

Each stimulus triggers a brief alarm phase, with a subsequent increased adaptation phase. If our immune system’s adaptive capacity is strong, we can appropriately compensate for the stimulus, and normergy (normal sensitivity) is re-established. If, however, the stimulus continues to be present and our response is not adequate, our whole body, or at a minimum, the area that is responding to the stimulus, remains in a state of increased adaptation. This continues until the area involved falls into a state of exhaustion. How long this process takes is important in determining symptoms, but is difficult to establish in retrospect.:.

Fig. 1 Selye: Stress Response Phases

According to Selye, if our body remains in the increased adaptation phase for a longer period, this often leads to an allergic reaction. Selye recognized three organ systems that are always involved in a stress response of this kind:

Responds to Stress

Organ Systems Involved in Stress Response

 Stomach — Acid–base balance Thymus Gland — Immune system Adrenal Glands — Hormone system

In this context, an allergy is a stress response of our body. Selye tells us that stress also involves imbalances in our acid-base balance and our hormone systems. The inflammatory response described above always involves, at the same time, a local acidosis (excess acid), and thus confirms Selye’s approach. We will discuss hormone balance later in this book; cortisone is one of the hormones involved here that most people are familiar with.

The Austrian physician Dr. Franz Xaver Mayr, in his teachings on the development of illness, described these processes as “normal–excitation–paralysis.” Excitation is the immune system’s attempt to compensate for, balance, and eliminate the triggering stimulus through increased activity. Paralysis describes the subsequent exhaustion that occurs if the triggering stimulus remains, and the body’s own coping mechanism is no longer able to control it.

Fig. 2 The teachings of F.X. Mayr were based on his understanding that the digestive system should not be impaired as a result of common nutritional errors. This portrait of the 60 year-old clearly confirms this theory.

Base Substance as Reaction Site for Allergies

The area in our body where the immune system’s response to an intruder takes place is called “base substance.” This base substance is found throughout our body, in front of the gates to each cell. The base substance is the “reaction site”, where the inflammation occurs that fights the triggering agent as a uniform immune system response. As long as the body remains in this response mode, we have a good chance of influencing it. If the process advances, it results in the destruction of cells and organ regions, making therapy more difficult and worsening prognosis. We call this auto-aggression disorder.

The base substance links individual organ structures, and modulates information and metabolism. In this sense, the base substance is also part of a non-specific defense strategy for our body, because it creates milieu factors and influences our body’s readiness to react. However, the base substance lacks the ability to remember, which falls to the cellular and humoral components of our immune system. It is also important that a reaction of the base substance in the form of a Selye stress response always precedes a specific immune response (Heine).

If the reaction of the base substance does not proceed correctly, a subsequent immune response will also not proceed properly and may be misdirected. This, in turn, creates the environment for an allergy to develop. This is important because the environmental and nutritional factors we experience as part of our civilized life particularly affect the base substance. Unbalanced nutrition, mineral deficiencies, heavy-metal burdening, inflammation sites, intestinal disorders, and many other factors change the base substance and its behavior. We will come back to this again in the discussion of F.X. Mayr Therapy.

Allergy Characteristics

The over-reaction of our immune system described in the definition above presupposes that a specific stimulus by an antigen leads to a counter-reaction in the form of hypersensitivity. This is not always the case. An antigen can produce a response in one person and have no effect on the next. What makes the difference is the specific reaction of the human body.

Because antigens are molecules (substances) that trigger an immunological response by specific cells of the immune system, we would expect that, strictly speaking, the immune response should be focused on this specific antigen. However, we have found that the immune system can also produce more extensive responses to other substances beyond the triggering antigen. We refer to these as “cross-allergies.” Cross-allergies can involve many different antigens (see Table 1).

However, even from this overview we can recognize that there are also indirect triggering agents which, strictly speaking, can bring about the same biochemical reactions.

Definition: An allergy is a response by the immune system that far exceeds its original purpose.

Inflammation as Allergy Indicator

Allergies can be triggered by many different factors, but the effects of the allergy on the body are relatively constant. Essentially, they involve excessive inflammatory symptoms with swelling of the tissue involved. This increases the permeability of the base substance, and causes edemas (swellings). The effects of such edemas can range from being simply unpleasant to life threatening, depending on the location. For example, an insect sting on the skin leads only to swelling, while a sting inside the throat (which rarely occurs but is possible) can cause the mucous membranes in the respiratory tract to swell, and may impede breathing. In extreme cases, this can lead to suffocation through blockage of the respiratory tracts. If the edema involves the mucous membranes in our digestive system, the altered permeability may lead to “leaky gut syndrome,” which enables intestinal content to travel into the blood stream. This, in turn, can cause allergies. We refer to this as intestinal autointoxification (see p. 44).

Other Signs of Allergic Reactions

In addition to swelling, the tissue or organ involved in an allergic reaction starts to heat up and redden. Of course, reddening is only visible if it occurs on the body surface. Overheating and reddening are caused by the release of various mediator substances as part of the biochemical reaction of the allergy. These mediator substances alter the metabolism of the inflamed region. Although they are typical for allergic reactions, they also occur with various other illnesses. Mediator substances are also responsible for any loss of function in the region involved, and for any accompanying pain. In this context, loss of function means the organ or tissue can no longer function normally because of the allergic reaction. With our digestive system, this can result in “leaky gut syndrome”. Similar effects can occur in the lungs with asthma, or on the skin with neurodermatitis, for example.

Role of Immunoglobulins

In addition to the relatively non-specific inflammatory responses described above, our immune system can also produce highly specialized defenses—called immunoglobulins. They are divided into several groups: IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, and IgM.

Immunoglobulins are proteins and include all antibody molecules. They are produced by specialized immuno cells as needed, and display diverse patterns of reaction. Immunoglobulins are antibodies that dock to allergens (or antigens) to render them harmless and enable their elimination. Antigen–antibody complexes of this kind are the triggering agents of unspecific inflammatory reactions, as described previously. Immunoglobulins are also the “memory” of the immune system. Once they have been produced, their level can be increased rapidly when necessary (see Fig. 3).

Besides these specific antibodies, our body also produces a series of enzymes, mediator substances, tissue hormones, and vasoactive amines, which together are important components of any defense response. Their over-production also causes symptoms, and it is primarily vasoactive amines that will interest us in more detail.

Fig. 3 Our immune system responds as follows: Allergens (antigens) find their way into our body (e. g., via skin, lungs, digestive tract). These can be pollen, foods, or other substances. Because they are foreign to the body, the body produces specific antibodies, one for each allergen. These antibodies dock onto the intruding allergen and neutralize it. The resulting antigen–antibody complexes trigger a further defense response, which breaks down these complexes.

Allergy Types

Primary Allergies

Classification of allergies is based on the type of immunoglobin reaction that takes place. In 1968, two researchers, Gell and Coombs, created a division into four different types of reactions, although these constitute only a rough pattern.

Type I—Immediate Hypersensitivity - Anaphylactic Shock