Food Allergies Test Reveals Link to Addiction
Tobacco Allergy Symptoms & Relief of a Brain Allergy
Oct 22, 2009
According to Dr. William H. Philpott, there is an important relationship between smoking, allergy and addiction. He maintains that tobacco, a plant of the notorious nightshade family, is as close to a universal allergen as is known to mankind.
Brain Allergy to Tobacco Toxins
Tobacco has its own innate toxicities, but tobacco smoke also contains extremely high levels of other toxins, including acetonitrile, carbon monoxide, hydrocyanic acid, nitric acid and sulfur dioxide.
In non-smokers, these toxins, along with poisons like nicotine and carcinogens such as radioactive dusts, tar and other pollutants cause immediate symptoms of nausea, weakness, light-headedness and even vomiting.
Even though tobacco smoke contains such high concentrations of these toxic substances, in smokers, these adverse allergic reactions eventually become delayed and finally are actually relieved by smoking again. When the body physically adapts to a potent allergen in this way, it is termed an addiction or an allergic-addiction.
Tobacco Allergy Symptoms
In his book, Brain Allergies: The Psychonutrient Connection, Dr. Philpott explains that, “The end result of a frequently evoked allergy, or an allergic-addictive state, is a disturbed metabolic condition leading to chronic physical, emotional or mental illness.” All allergic reactions, or allergic-addictive withdrawal symptoms, can have a profound effect on the body’s organs, including the brain.
Tobacco allergies in particular are the cause of tremendous physical, mental and emotional symptoms. Tobacco allergies have long been known to affect the eyes, sinuses, throat, lungs, stomach, intestines and cardiovascular system – but the brain can be severely disturbed by tobacco addiction as well.
Study of Brain Allergy to Tobacco
In one study smokers were withdrawn from tobacco use for four days. On the fifth day a provocative allergy test was done consisting of having the subjects chain smoke. The results described an incredibly broad range of disturbing mental and emotional reactions to the testing, including:
- Severe anxiety and tension
- Weakness and fatigue
- Distortions in perception
- Delusional thinking
- Hallucinations
Even more interesting, however, was Dr. Philpott’s discovery that through elimination / re-challenge allergy-testing techniques, the desire to smoke was triggered as a symptom of an allergic reaction to substances other than tobacco.
In Allergic Addiction, a Food Allergies Test Triggers a Desire to Smoke
This was discovered in a subsequent test in which the subject was a patient who had never achieved success in his attempts to quit smoking. The patient in this experiment was hospitalized and fasted exclusively on well water for four days. During the first two days of his fast, the patient’s desire to smoke was overwhelming, but by the fourth day occasional urges to smoke were easily ignored.
At the conclusion of the four-day fast, the patient was systematically introduced to meals consisting of single foods. This food testing resulted in allergic reactions to four different foods. Of the four foods to which the patient reacted, two resulted in the subject’s insatiable desire to smoke.
The happy result for this patient is that he learned that by eliminating the allergenic foods from his diet, he would finally be able to stop smoking.
Cure Addiction by Eliminating Brain Allergen
What Dr. Philpott concludes is that in order to arrive at a successful treatment for addictions of any kind, it is of the utmost importance to carefully consider and discover all hypersensitive allergic reactions – whether they relate to foods, chemicals, or inhalants – and eliminate them.
Dr. William H. Philpott
William H. Philpott, M.D. has specialty training and practice in psychiatry, neurology, electroencephalography, nutrition, environmental medicine and toxicology. He is a founding member of the Academy of Orthomolecular Psychiatry. He is also a fellow of the Orthomolecular Psychiatric Society and the Society of Environmental Medicine and Toxicology.
In 1998, the Linus Pauling Award was presented to Dr. Philpott by the Orthomolecular Health Society, "for his scientific leadership and scholarship spanning the entire history of Orthomolecular medicine."
Reference:
- Philpott, W. (1980) Brain Allergies: The Psychonutrient Connection. 27 Pine Street, New Canaan, CT 06840: Keats Publishing, Inc.
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