Doctor Devi S. Nambudripad set out to find a way to eliminate allergies.  You might say Dr. Devi was driven by her own body to find a cure because she suffered from terrible sensitivities.  If she ate anything besides broccoli and boiled white rice, she would experience hives, bloating, diarrhea or worse!
     During her search, Dr. Devi started adding letters after her name.  She became a Registered Nurse, a Doctor of Philosophy (in nutrition), a Doctor of Chiropractic and a Licensed Acupuncturist -- all before she discovered N.A.E.T. "by accident."  (So many things get discovered this way!)
     Dr. Devi wrote her book entitled Say Goodbye to Illness to explain why and how she discovered her technique which she says "will revolutionize the practice of medicine."  This article is meant only to explain the basics so you can understand what we are doing when we clear an allergy.  (You can order Dr. Devi's book at her web site:

Conventional medicine has worried over this question since its early days and still does not have a complete answer.  Basically, most Medical Doctors think an "allergy" is a mistake whereby an affected body demonstrates inappropriate sensitivity -- an over-reaction -- to some component of the universe.  An allergen is that which causes an allergy -- and the universe is full them.
     Even though the body usually seems to have "a good head on its shoulders," conventional wisdom teaches that allergies appear to occur without reason.   This is totally uncharacteristic behavior for the intricate "machines" in which we and our pets live our lives.
     Dr. Devi's genius is that she has come up with a possible explanation for the mechanism of developing allergies.  Here is a paraphrased version of Devi's hypothesis based on what Melissa and I observe in our practice:
     An allergy is an apparent mistake of the body.  The allergy is born at the instant of occurrence of some physical or emotional trauma which the body wishes to avoid in the future.  The mind (which permeates the body) never forgets anything, but retains mental image pictures consisting of exact replicas of every sensory input ever experienced by the body.
     The hypothesis goes*:  some ancient mechanism (probably developed long before the body gained the ability to analyze events) "remembers" the allergen as a noxious stimulus (part of a mental image picture of a traumatic incident) and does what it can to keep the body from touching that "noxious stimulus" in the future.
     The body then stores that "noxious memory" in a portion of the central nervous system which governs the following organ systems:  the brain, lungs, heart, stomach, spleen, kidneys, liver, gallbladder, intestines, or urinary bladder.  When the body comes in contact with the allergen, problems show up in those systems where the memory of the allergen resides.