When you’re a sneezy, stuffy, puffy mess you’re likely to be spending a lot of time thinking about your nose. However, shifting your focus to your liver will really help reduce your allergy symptoms.
This hard working unsung hero of organs relates to your allergies because it’s what pulls toxins out of your body, not just alcohol, but also medications, environmental toxins, food additives, pesticides, chemicals in your skin products, and household cleaning products, etc. etc. In the modern day, we’re surrounded by these things all the time. So your liver has a lot of work to do!
However, your liver doesn’t have an infinite amount of resources or energy. It can only do so much at once. So if it gets over loaded and over stimulated, the toxins start to back up.
This toxin build up, and the allergens you come in contact with send a red flag to your immune system. It responds by pumping out histamines and other inflammatory agents.
But that’s not all! You get a double whammy, because if your liver is already sluggish, it can’t do its job of breaking down all the histamine that your immune system is generating. And these overflowing histamines are what cause all the allergy symptoms that make you miserable, the sneezing, the itching, stuffed up sinuses, the puffy eyes etc.
Just like the air or oil filter in your car, the liver’s job is to pull stuff you don’t want out of your body. Imagine what would happen if you never changed your air or oil filter for years and years! Let’s just say it wouldn’t be good.
That’s why we recommend that adults do liver supportive acupuncture, and take liver supportive herbs for a couple of weeks at least once per year. Your body, just like your car, requires maintenance.
If you’re suffering from allergies, then it’s a clear sign that it’s time to put some maintenance work into your liver and other organ systems. There’s no need to be an itchy, stuffy, sneezy mess! Routine health maintenance will help you to stay allergy free.
