This "desensibilisation" (french term) was commonly used in the 70s in France, but was slowly forbidden because of few accident and anglo-saxon consensus against.
the does are far more than homeopathy, just like classic immunization dose to trigger immune system, but very lightly, unlike immunization which want to activate it violently simulating real infection with adjuvant (that activate the native immune system). you increase the dose, until the immune system no more care. My sister was cured that way (or it simply disappear naturally like in most case... dunno- that doubt was part of the accusation of being ineffectivie). It is a well know fact for long time that allergy are not caused mostly by chemical product, but by hygiene (which have other advantages), but that old idea is rejected like hormesis, because fighting against cleanness principles. Todays theory that I read many times is that the immune system have two stable state, one efficient against bacteria, and another against parasites. If we are not enough infected with bacteria, we prepare to fight agains parasites, and it can cause allergy (interpreting foreign proteins as from parasites). Note that natural product, because much more complex (arachid/peanut show thousands of different epitope. there is thousands of various allergy against peanut) the natural products cause more allergy. however modern preparation (roasting, pollution, chemical alteration) make the existing natural products even more complex, thus allergenic. Also modern life make us exposed to many more natural exotic products. Basically it seems that country where people eat much cheese from raw milk (the one that is forbidden in US, and nearly was forbidden in EU), have less digestive infection, and allergy, than pasteurized countries. Another factor about raw milk cheese (and other similar fermented products) is that it is an ecosystem that resist to contamination by aggressive germs. The problems is that if it is badly fermented (dirty manipulations), in rare cases the cheese is a very aggressive ecosystem... intermediate situation are nearly impossible. People also have to adapt to those ecosystem... the "Turista effect". note that the Listeria infection is mostly caused by warm fridge (12C)... warm temperature kills the listeria (by competition from other species). 2012/9/25 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > The latest issue of scientific American has an article about food > allergies in children. Apparently, if you gradually introduce tiny amounts > of the foods they are allergic to, in most cases the allergies subside. The > amounts used at first are similar to those used in homeopathy. > > Years ago, studies were done in Switzerland of children raised on > farms versus children from urban areas. Apparently, in Swiss farms, > people come in close contact with livestock. Researchers expected to > find the children raised on farms would be allergic to animal hairs. They > found just the opposite: urban people never exposed to hair were most > likely to be allergic to it. > > - Jed > >
