Testing For Allergies 231is able to tell whether body is adapted to that food. In fact it isn’t necessary
for the patient to take in the food; just holding some will work just as well.
If the muscles weaken significantly, the food is deemed to be an
allergen.
My main criticism, having dealt with innumerable patients who
have been first to a kinesiologist and had a failed or only partial result, is
that the majority of AK practitioners are naïve in being unaware that their
own body reacts too. So many of these people diagnose “wheat allergy” or
some other reaction on virtually everyone who enters their office. Like all
“dowsing” techniques, it is a case of find what you want to find, unless you
take vigorous steps to try and prevent this auto-diagnosis.
The Auriculo-Cardiac-Reflex Method (ACR)
Even stranger technique than applied kinesiology, but one I have
learned and seen perform well, is the auriculo-cardiac-reflex method,
developed by French neurosurgeon Paul Nogier.
It is based on the fact that stimulation of the sympathetic nervous
system causes the rate of maximum pulse amplitude to shift along the artery.
Note: this has nothing to do with pulse rate, which does not necessarily
alter.
The test is calibrated as follows: the practitioner rests his or her
thumb over the radial artery at the wrist so that the impulse is just out of
reach beyond the tip of his or her thumb. A bright light is then shone onto
a sympathetically enervated portion of skin, either the earlobe or the back
of the hand. This causes the point of maximum amplitude of the pulse to
move till it comes directly under the practitioner’s thumb.
Done properly, it is like feeling nothing until the light shines, at
which point the pulse suddenly starts to bump under the counting thumb.
This response to light is called a positive reflex. Once established with a
patient, then it is sought as a sign of an allergen (actually, just a sign of
sympathetic stimulus, which is not quite the same thing).
Testing foods and other allergens is simply a matter of holding a
filter containing each substance over the skin of the forearm. A positive
auriculo-cardiac reflex lasting a dozen or more pulse-beats is a sign of an
allergy. If it lasts 20 or more beats, that is a severe allergy.
With set of filters covering common foods and other allergens, it is
possible to test quickly a wide range of substances. Once again, the patient
must simply avoid the food but, since only the most pronounced allergens
show up, it doesn’t usually lead to a long list of banned substances.