Anyone have any experience using accupuncture for Allergies?

Question

Where the might be a list of licensed Accupuncturists.

How many treatments are necessary for positive results

Answer 1

Check your yellow pages.

No treatments will help you.  Acupuncture is a load of bunk.

Answer 2

Acupuncture has no proven effects at all, other than temporary relief of minor pain.  It does this merely by activating the bodies own placebo response, which results in the release of natural painkillers, called endorphins.   The placebo response has been scientifically proven and is in agreement with what was already known about anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and neurotransmitters.  

Acupuncture requires the acceptance of unproven/unseen "life energy" flowing through unproven/unseen meridians, and accessed through unseen/unproven chakra points.  The principal of parsimony (aka Occam's Razor) suggests the answer that requires the fewest unproven assumptions is the correct one.

Acupuncture has zero PROVEN effect on allergies.  There is not a single high quality study showing a connection.of any sort.  Prove me wrong...I dare ya...I double dog dare ya.

EDIT:  For the record, bee pollen treatment is also bunk.

Answer 3

my accupuncturist is also a chiropractor, so i normally get poked and crunched in the same session.  His treatments have seemed to work so far - i get a little stuffy, but not the super sniffle, crud welling, snotrocketry that I used to get .  If he knows his chinese medicine as well, he'll be able to figure out some of the other things that are provoking minor allergic reactions and help mitigate those.  That fixes the minor malaise some of us live with.  A good acupuncturist will use the needles to effectively stimulate a reduction in reactions.  Make sure to follow what s/he tells you to do, and not do, especially the little silly diet things - they really make a difference.

Answer 4

seasonal allergies can be elliminated by introducing local bee pollen to your diet. Start off with 1/4 tsp for a week, sencond week 1/2 tsp by the third a full tsp.