An allergy is defined as excessive defence action of the immune system against specific and normally harmless environmental substances (allergens), which manifests itself in typical symptoms caused by inflammatory processes. The symptoms of an allergy can be mild to severe and in some cases even be urgently life-threatening. For reasons of exposure, it can be that the symptoms only occur seasonally, for instance at the time of the respective pollen flight or that the symptoms occur year-round as in the case of an allergy against house dust mite excrements for example.

There are several different types of disorders, in which the symptoms occur in different organs of the body. Allergies and hypersensitivity can manifest themselves:

- in the mucous membranes (allergic rhinitis (hay fever), oral mucosa swelling, conjunctivitis (pink eye))

- in the respiratory tracts (bronchial asthma)

- in the skin (atopic dermatitis (neurodermatitis), contact dermatitis, urticaria)

- in the gastrointestinal tract (vomiting, diarrhoea, particularly in infants and toddlers)

- as an acute emergency (anaphylactic shock)

Allergic persons can suffer from one type of disorder but also from mixed types. While allergic symptoms in the mucous membranes are typically acute symptoms, symptoms such as bronchial asthma and atopic dermatitis can take a chronic course.

Most allergies are treated with medication, which ease or prevent the occurrence of allergic reactions however, it cannot lead to a cure for the allergic disorder. These antiallergics are used in different pharmaceutical forms (tablets, nasal sprays, asthma sprays, eye drops, creams, ointments and injections) and at different intervals (for acute requirements, prophylactically, permanently) depending on the type of disorder and the severity. Changes in the intestinal flora can, among other things, be caused by the application of antibiotics and by modern eating habits. Our practice offers the opportunity of clarifying indistinguishable allergies and treating malfunctioning intestinal flora. Allergies can be permanently and significantly improved by an intestinal cleansing. We offer acupuncture against hay fever.