NAET
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NAET (Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Technique) is form of pseudoscience used as alternative medicine treatment for allergies. It was founded in 1976 by U.S. chiropractor and acupuncturist Devi S. Nambudripad.
[edit] Medical community views
NAET is largely regarded by the medical community as unscientific. For example, Dr. Stephen Barrett’s[1] view on NAET is not favourable. He concludes, after an examination of the technique and Nambudripad’s credentials:
- NAET clashes with the concepts of anatomy, physiology, pathology, physics, and allergy accepted by the scientific community. The story of its “discovery” is highly implausible. Its core diagnostic approach – muscle testing for “allergies” – is senseless and is virtually certain to diagnose nonexistent problems. Its recommendations for dietary restrictions based on nonexistent food allergies are likely to place the patient at great risk for nutrient deficiency, and, in the case of children, at risk for social problems and the development of eating disorders. I believe that practitioners who use NAET have such poor judgment that they should not be permitted to remain licensed. If you encounter a practitioner who relies on the strategies described in this article, please ask the state attorney general to investigate.
Others in the medical community state it has placebo effects at best. A recent review[2] concludes that “there have been no studies supporting the use of these techniques, and several have refuted their utility. A beneficial placebo effect may be responsible for the perceived clinical effectiveness in many cases of food intolerance.” There is a distinct lack of studies of NAET, another review of complementary allergy tests[3] goes so far as to state that “NAET has to be the most unsubstantiated allergy treatment proposed to date.”
[edit] References
- ^ Stephen Barrett M. D. NAET
- ^ Teuber, Suzanne S.; Porch-Curren, Cristina (2003). "Unproved diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to food allergy and intolerance.". Current Opinion in Allergy & Clinical Immunology. 3 (3): 217–221. doi:.
- ^ Morris, A. (2006). "COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE ALLERGY TESTS". Current Allergy & Clinical Immunology 19 (1).
