Jonathan Shubs
Acupuncture Lausanne
Allergies
Hay fever, seasonal and environmental allergies, and other reactions: in each, the body has decided that something is not safe.
“Returning to the root is called stillness.”
How I look at allergies
An allergy is your body recognising a contact as unsafe. So, alongside calming the symptoms, which can feel overwhelming, the larger part of the work is helping the body understand that the pollen, food or substance it reacts to is not the attack it believes it to be. That often means being curious about why the body came to see it that way.
Beyond the trigger
Chinese medicine is interested in the trigger, but also in the cycle: the time of year, the season, and the conditions in which your reaction appears. Alongside "what is it?", we ask "when, and under what conditions?". Then we look at what is happening in that season, in the world around us and in your body, and bring the two into balance.
Through the seasons
Seasonal allergies are best worked with over a longer period, not only when symptoms are present. When symptoms are there, we work to calm them. Between seasons, we work on giving the body a baseline of safety, so that when the season returns it can meet the same trigger differently.
Ready when you are.
There is no wrong place to begin.