By:  Dr. Devi S. Nambudripad, M.D. (WI), D.C., L.Ac., Ph.D. (Acu.) 

I. Introduction

NAET is a method that helps to balance energies in the body. According to Oriental medical theory, when one’s body energies are maintained in a balanced state, one does not suffer from most health disorders that arise from an energy imbalance.  According to NAET theory, allergies cause energy imbalances in the energy meridians, also known as energy pathways. An energy blockage is the primary cause for any allergic reaction towards any substance.  When the energy blockage from an allergen is removed via NAET, that particular allergen has not been shown to produce adverse reactions in the body on future contacts.  NAET is a mild, energy balancing, noninvasive, gentle procedure.  Over the past 20 years that NAET has been administered to thousands of patients by hundreds of practitioners world-wide it is not known to have caused any long-term adverse effects.  While going through NAET treatments, patients already taking medications, therapies or other modalities should continue to do so.  If you suffer from a specific medical problem, you should continue to receive care of the appropriate medical specialist to manage your health needs related to that condition.  NAET is an energy-blockage removal treatment.  It is not a primary care procedure.

II. Before the First Treatment

1. When you arrive at the NAET Clinic you will be provided with useful background information about the testing and treatment procedures.  You may also be asked to watch a brief video about NAET.

6. You are asked not to wear any perfume, perfumed powder, strongly scented deodorant, hair spray, or after-shave and do not eat strong smelling herbs, garlic, seafood, etc., when coming to the NAET Clinic for treatments.  If you suspect something is responsible for causing an allergic reaction, you may bring the item to the NAET Clinic in a thin glass container with a lid (such as a baby food jar with lid).  Please do not bring items in plastic containers.  Plastic containers cannot be used in testing.

7. NO smoking allowed in or around the office.  If possible shower before you come for a treatment and wear clean clothes to avoid smells of herbs, spices, perspiration, etc.  Various smells can cause irritation and reactions in other sensitive patients in the clinic waiting room.  Please do not eat or drink in the office.  Another patient in the office waiting room might react to the smell of your food.

8. Wear a minimum or no jewelry when you come in for a treatment.  Avoid wearing large crystals or large diamonds.  NAET can be done while wearing your own clothes provided you wear simple, loose clothes without ANY art work or embroidery with crystals, beads, stones, metals, glass or plastic pieces.  It is fine to wear a simple wrist watch while testing or during treatments.  Avoid using electronic devices such as cell phones, calculators, tape recorders, photo camera, etc.

9. PLEASE do not wear any guns or knives to the office even if they are part of your job requirements.  Please do NOT bring sharp metal objects, sharp toys, heavy toys, or toy guns to the office.

10. Please turn off your cell phones inside the waiting room and in the treatment room.  Other sensitive patients might react to your cell phone.  Cell phones should be off and kept away from your body during NAET testing and desensitization treatment.

11. You should eat before coming in for your treatment.  You may consider bringing a snack with you in case you have a long wait in your practitioner’s office.  Please leave it in the car until you are ready to eat it.   Remember to wash your hands with soap and water and rinse your mouth before after you have eaten and before starting your treatment.

12. As a general rule you should always wash your hands with soap and water before beginning any treatment or testing.  Hand-washing removes any residue left on your hands from other substances.

13. Consider postponing your NAET treatment if you are extremely tired, worked a night shift, or have worked too many hours without a break.

IV During Each Treatment

14. You should not have any companion either standing or sitting within your magnetic field during treatment (minimum of 5 feet). You should not bring children to the treatment room while you are being treated.  You should be alone with your practitioner while you get tested or treated with NAET.

15. NAET is a mind-body balancing procedure.  Your practitioner needs to receive permission from your conscious and subconscious minds before performing any energy balancing procedures.  Signing the consent is the permission from the conscious mind.  Permission from the subconscious is also necessary for a successful NAET treatment.  For a trained practitioner it takes only a few seconds to seek permission from the subconscious. In  rare occasions, it has been shown that certain people’s subconscious mind does not grant permission to perform NAET testing or treatment.  In such cases, the practitioner may choose not to proceed and/or may make appropriate referrals for further evaluations related to such pepole's health conditions.

16. The NAET practitioner must get permission from your subconscious mind before each NAET desensitization treatment as well.  On a particular visit, if your brain did not give favorable signals for a new treatment, you will be rescheduled for another date.  This is to your benefit.  It has been shown that even anaphylactic cases can be treated successfully for the anaphylaxis-producing allergen when the NAET practitioner gets permission from the patient's subconscious before doing the treatment.  You may rest for a few days until your brain and body are ready to get more treatments or you may be able to receive other immune system supporting treatments like  acupuncture, massage, yoga, etc. while waiting.

17. When undergoing skin resistivitiy or neuro-sensitivity testing the patient should wash or rub his/her hands together for 30 seconds between touching different samples. The energy of the previously tested sample has shown to produce false results if the energy of the previous item has not been removed from the hands before touching a new one.

19. Do not eat or chew gum or candy during testing or NAET treatment.

20. The NAET practitioner will not have anyone observing  treatment or taking notes, from a close proximity.  The distance varies with each patient for each allergen.  Your practitioner will know how to determine the distance.

21. If you are unable to have the practitioner test you directly (if you are a child, old person, too strong, too weak, disabled, advanced stage of pregnancy, etc.) then you should be tested through a surrogate so that the practitioner can get accurate information about your sensitivities.  You should maintain skin-to-skin contact with the surrogate during testing and the surrogate should rub his/her hands together or wash hands between testing different allergens.

22. Similarly, if you are treated through a surrogate you should get the same benefit as if you were getting treated directly.  Patients in advanced stage of pregnancy, morbidly obese, with psoriasis or a debilitating skin problem, back surgery, scoliosis, or a history of anaphylaxis, etc., should receive NAET treatments through a surrogate.

V The Basic 15 Treatments

23. The NAET Basic 15 treatments are in fact the basic essential nutrients for everyone.  If you are allergic to them your body may not receive adequate nutrients.  That will degrade the immune system and may cause to have various health disorders due to nutritional deficiencies brought on by allergies.  When your immune system is maintained at a normal level, not only do you feel better overall, your allergic sensitivity will be reduced with the result that you will need fewer NAET treatments to get maximum results.

VI. Reasons That Treatments May be Given Out of Order

24. If you have allergies to white rice, or pasta, they can be treated before the Basic treatments.

25. Hard-to-avoid items like prescription drugs should be treated first in the doctor’s office, then treated at home through self-treatment every two hours.  In case of a drug that cannot be avoided, you should treat by gate-massage before and after you take the drug as well as massaging the gates every two hours for the 25 hours after the initial treatment.

26. When a patient has an acute problem, practitioners will usually treat the acute problem before resuming the normal order of treatments (if the patient’s subconscious gives permission to do so).  For instance, when a patient is reacting to a particular food that was eaten recently, a medication that is essential for the patient (like pain medication, cortisone, antihistamine, antidepressants, heart medication, etc.), fire-smoke, accidental exposure to fumes, acute emotional imbalances (like the death of a loved one, etc.), can be treated as an acute allergen before completing the basic fifteen treatments as long as the body permits.  If someone has severe reaction to pollens, weeds, cigarette smoke, regular drugs,  chemotherapy drugs, antibiotics, standard emotional blockage removal treatments, person-to-person allergies, etc., can be treated after completing six basic treatments (after completing sugar mix).  When the treatment for an acute allergen is completed satisfactorily you should go back to the basics and continue as before.

VII After Treatments

27. You must wash your hands with plain water after treatment before leaving the office.  After the treatment if you cannot wash or rinse your hands, vigorously rubbing your hands by interlacing your fingers for 30 seconds will be sufficient.

28. After the NAET treatment please not do any vigorous exercise for at least 6 hours. A mild walk is fine.

29. Avoid exposure to extreme hot or cold temperature after your NAET treatment.

30. Avoid bathing or showeirng for at least 6 hours following your NAET treatment.

31. Avoid touching any objects with your hands during the 20 minutes immediately following your NAET treatment.

32. Do not cross your hands or feet during the 20 minutes immediately following your NAET treatment.  Lying or resting with a calm mind will be beneficial.  You could visualize positive, warm energy circulation through the 12 meridians while resting.  Meditation is allowed.  After receiving a treatment for an "emotional" you are advised to think positively during the 20 minute waiting period about the issue which was treated.

30. Your practitioner will ask you to avoid the treated allergen for 25 hours (sometimes more as indicated by his/her testing) after the completion of the treatment in the office.  For 25 hours after the treatment you should avoid eating, touching, inhaling and coming within 5 feet of the substance that was treated for.  It is also suggested that after completing your treatment satisfactorily for an allergen, eat a small amount of the item daily for three to four days.  If the treatment is not completely finished, this will bring out some minor symptoms and your practitioner can investigate the reasons behind those symptoms and eliminate them. Another benefit of introducing the treated allergen into your body is to reconfirm the brain and nervous system about the harmlessness of the item so that your nervous system will not forget about this allergen in the future even if you are not exposed to this item for a long period thereafter.

31. It is recommended that after three NAET basic treatments, you try to consume food and drinks from the desensitized groups only.  Add new items to your list as you complete each treatment.  This should reduce your overall discomfort while going through the remaining treatments, should render the treatments more effective and should allow you to see results of NAET faster.  Your immune system will dictate your treatment schedule.  A patient with severe allergies and a poor immune system may only be able to tolerate one treatment per week.  A patient with a more robust immune system may be able to to tolerate three or more treatments per week.  Your practitioner can test your body for the appropriate treatment plan.

32. If you are a highly sensitive person or if you experience any discomfort during the 25 hour-avoidance period after the treatment (crying spells, depression, unusual emotions or unusual pains anywhere in the body, etc.), you may need to balance your gates every two hours on your own at home while you are awake.  When you sleep, you do not need to set an alarm to wake you every two hours.  Instead whenever you wake up, you can continue treating again.

33. The practitioner can determine the approximate number of hours of avoidance by using question response testing for patients who have difficulty avoiding food for 25 hours.  Infants and children can be treated in the evening or before going to sleep for hard-to-avoid items. Please ask your practitioner if you have questions.

34. If someone has difficulty avoiding an allergen for a specific amount of time for any reason, he/she should balance his/her gate points every two hours as well as before and after exposure to the allergen.  In case the patient has developmental disabilities, caretakers should be instructed to massage the gate points every two hours during the 25 hours avoidance period and also before and after touching the treated allergen.  Your practitioner will teach you the self-balancing technique if you do not understand by reading the book, Living Pain Free. 

35. No adverse reactions have been noted when a person eats food including the food he/she was treated, for 20 minutes following the retest of the initial treatment for the allergen. The 25 hour-restriction begins 30 minutes after the completion of the treatment. Do not eat HEAVY meals before or after the NAET® or acupuncture treatments. DRINK a glass of water before the NAET® treatment. Energy moves better in a well hydrated body. Drink 4-6 glasses of water through the day after NAET® treatments to help flush out the toxins produced during the treatment.

36. You are advised to MAINTAIN your own treatment and food diary in The Guide Book after each treatment. Write down all the good and bad symptoms you experience during 25-hours following treatment and bring it to your practitioner on your next visit. If you have frequent health problems and you do not know the cause of your problems, write down your daily activities for a month in a separate notebook. Record all the food and drinks you consumed even if they were in small portions and record also anything new you have purchased in the house or work area since the problem started. Bring your record to the office and let your NAET® practitioner test you for the items in your list to find the culprit.

37. You may need to take EXTRA precaution while you get treated for environmental substances: (mineral mix, metals, water, leather, formaldehyde, fabric, wood, mold, mercury, newspaper, chemicals, flowers, etc.). Apart from staying away from these items, you may also need to wear a mask, gloves, socks, shoes, gowns, scarves, earplugs, etc. You can also massage the gate points every two hours while awake during the 25-hour period if it is not completely avoidable.

38. During the 25-hours or afterwards, if you get a life-threatening reaction from an allergen (either from the one you were treated in the office or another one), you MUST seek emergency help immediately from a primary care physician or emergency room, or by calling 911.

39. Once every month or so, or after completing treatments for TEN to FIFTEEN allergens, your practitioner will repeat NST on all treated allergens. If an allergen wasn’t passing over 50 percent at the time, they will be boosted up again. No avoidance is necessary at this time.

40. AFTER fifteen Basic treatments with the practitioner, patient should begin to gather a small sample of every day food and drinks and holding the sample, balance the gate points every night before bedtime.

41. DRINK one 6 ounce-glass of water first thing in the morning. Drink 1 glass of water before bedtime.

42. Remember to CHECK with your practitioner for the item you treated, after 25 hours, and at least within one week to make sure you have completed the treatment.

VII Additional Information About NAET®

43. NAET® is a HOLISTIC procedure. It balances the entire body including: physical, physiological and emotional functions. Everyone needs balance in all these levels of the body to be healthy. If one area is not balanced properly, other areas cannot function normally. NAET® emotional balancing procedure has been shown to produce marvelous results in people who suffer from environmental illness, chemical reactions, chronic pain disorders, other chronic illnesses, autism and ADHD, etc. This emotional balancing treatment will be provided to the patient without additional cost. After completion of Sugar treatment (after completing six basic treatments), NAET® emotional balancing treatments can be administered upon request.

44. NAET® emotional balancing procedures do NOT replace the need for traditional psychological or psychiatric help. If you are getting treatments in these areas prior to NAET®, please continue with your therapies and medications as needed. If you for any reason do not like to be balanced emotionally by your NAET® practitioner (due to religious reasons, etc.), you should inform the NAET® practitioner on the initial visit, then emotional balancing procedure will be excluded from your treatment plan.

45. If you did not complete the treatment, or if you could not complete the specific NAET® treatment for some reason, do not panic. NAET® is a mild, energy balancing, noninvasive, gentle procedure. It has not been shown to cause any long-term adverse effects on anyone within the last twenty years. Your temporary symptoms may be due to the incomplete treatment and may continue for up to two or three weeks maximum. Drink about 4-6 glasses of boiled cooled water daily to help with your energy circulation.

46. Eventually the particular symptoms will wear off and you may return to your pre-NAET® status if you did not repeat the treatment for the unfinished allergen. For example, if you suffered from insomnia prior to NAET® treatment, you may continue to have insomnia; if you suffered from pain disorders, you may continue to suffer from pain disorders, etc. An allergen which was treated halfway has not shown to render any benefit to the patient at all. Human body forgets and adapts new ways fast. The incomplete treatment is forgotten in about three days to a week in most cases, but in some cases it has shown to take as long as three weeks, then the body learns to focus on current events. Thus, in a few days, an incompletely treated allergen has been viewed by the body as an allergen that was never been treated before.

47. But if you had to stop the NAET treatment for the particular allergen because you had no means to get to the office, then you can balance the energy for the particular item at home on your own by holding the item while massaging the gate points once every four hours while awake for two to three weeks or as short or as long as the body needs to view that as a friendly item. This method will only work after one has been treated initially with a trained practitioner, and the treatment was not completed for some reason. If it is an uncomplicated, individual item, like a piece of sourdough bread, a piece of meat, a hot dog, a laxative or a pain pill like Tylenol or another drug, a particular piece of fabric (a shirt, scarf), etc., then the patient or the caretaker can complete the treatment in this manner at home. CAUTION: this should be done only on a single allergen, never try on a group of allergens.

48. After completing treatment for an allergen, if NST tested strong on retest but the patient is still suffering from prior symptoms, the patient should be allowed to rest a few days to a couple of weeks without any new NAET® treatment. This is in fact to rule out or to determine if the desensitization towards the particular allergen was successful or not; and to determine if the presenting symptom is arising from another source or not. If the particular allergen treatment is incomplete, if you wait a few days the NST will produce a weak response either on its own or with some combinations. Then the treatment on the allergen itself or with a combination can be repeated at that time. While waiting to detect the outcome of the previous treatment, it is OK to boost up the immune system with acupuncture, chiropractic treatments, massages, herbs or other therapies. Or the patient can continue to self balance for the item at home as described above.

49. Sometimes, the patient continues to have the same symptom but NST does not show any weakness on the previously treated allergen. In such cases it has shown that the patient passed the treated allergen but another allergen capable of producing similar symptoms have been identified as the culprit. Usually people with history of allergies react to more than one or a few allergens. When one allergen gets desensitized and eliminated from the body, others will get noticed easier, hence the symptom of the previous allergen continues until all the allergens are desensitized with NAET®.

50. When one has a weakness in any particular area of the body, every allergen affects that area of the body giving rise to symptom similar to the first one. This pattern is especially noticed in patients with asthma, sinus problems, autistic disorders, attention-deficit hyperactive disorders, chronic pain syndrome, as in degenerative arthritis, fibromyalgia, lupus, headaches, migraines, backaches, myofascial pain, peripheral neuropathy, PMS, insomnia, manic or depressive disorders, etc. Because of this mechanism, until you complete NAET for Basic fifteen, you may not see much changes in your health in these cases.

51. When you are allergic to a substance, your body produces lots of endogenous toxins. After you are treated to an allergen, it takes 24 hours for the body to detoxify the allergen from all 12 major meridians (each meridian takes 2 hours) naturally to get the toxins out of the body. SOME patients may not have 25 hour avoidance or restrictions. Some people may pass the allergen right after the treatment; some may take just a few hours; some may take 25 hours, yet some others may take 40 hours. Even though NST demonstrated that you would clear the allergen in 10 minutes or so, it is to your advantage to avoid the item for the whole 25 hours (24 hours and one more hour) allowing the body to detox naturally. After a few NAET® treatments, you have the option to go on a good detoxification program using different products (herbs, minerals, etc.) to clean up your system. But if you faithfully follow the 25-hour avoidance, you may not need any special detoxification since the body is able to naturally eliminate the toxins in time if given a chance.

52. You are advised to continue ALL medications and other treatment modalities as they have prescribed unless otherwise directed by the doctors who prescribed them. PLEASE do not stop any other treatment you are on: medication, therapy, chiropractic treatments, massages, etc.

53. NAET® treatments have NOT been shown to interfere with any other treatment. In fact, if you can keep your body free of toxin accumulation and keep your symptoms under control by using medication or therapies, NAET® has shown to work better.

54. For FEMALE patients: Treatments are not advisable during the first three days of menstrual cycle.

55. NAET® treatments during pregnancy have not shown to cause any adverse effects to the mother or child so far. In fact tremendous benefits have been noted in both cases. When the mothers receives adequate NAET® treatments during pregnancy (at least 15 basics and all known allergens of the mother treated), their children are born with very few allergies when compared with their siblings who never had exposure to NAET® before birth.

56. When you go through the NAET® treatment program, you will be advised to get supplemented with appropriate amount of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients for a while if it is indicated. When the nutrients are supplemented appropriately pain and discomfort arising from various disorders like chronic fatigue, general body aches, arthritis, and other pain disorders due to deficiencies, etc., will be reduced.

57. If you do not show any improvement in your health status after successfully passing basic ten to fifteen allergen groups at all three levels, probably NAET® is not for you. Please ask your practitioner to refer you to another source of healthcare facility.

58. The NAET® practitioner…. This is for your best benefit. It has been shown that even anaphylactic cases also can be treated successfully for the anaphylaxis-producing allergen when the NAET® practitioner gets permission from the patient’s brain before doing the treatment.