Seasonal allergies can have a direct impact on your daily life and make functioning at work and home that much more challenging. But living on medicine does not have to be the norm.
Here are three ways you can utilize a more natural approach to relief via naturopathic, chiropractic and acupuncture care.
Naturopathic Care for Seasonal Allergies
Naturopathic care provides a holistic approach to allergy management by addressing underlying immune imbalances and supporting your body’s ability to handle allergens naturally.
Here’s how:
✅ Nutritional Support: Anti-inflammatory foods rich in vitamin C, quercetin, and omega-3s help stabilize immune responses. Your naturopath can provide a customized nutrition plan.
✅ Herbal Remedies & Supplements: Adding an allergy supplement to your daily routine can be beneficial.
Natural antihistamines like stinging nettle, butterbur, and bromelain can help reduce allergy symptoms without drowsiness.
✅ Gut Health Optimization: Since 70% of the immune system is in the gut, balancing gut bacteria through probiotics and digestive support can reduce allergic reactions. Reach out to your ND to discuss gut health testing options like GIMAP Stool testing and food sensitivity testing.
Our Elite GI shakes can act as a meal replacement 1-2 times a day when you are finding that you are reacting to a lot of foods or starting an elimination diet.
✅ Liver Detox Support: Your liver plays a key role in processing allergens and inflammatory compounds. Gentle detox strategies help clear histamines from your system. The only safe detox to do on your own, without professional guidance, is the following:
- 6oz water every waking hour
- sleep 8-9 hours a night
- eating Paleo/Mediterranean
For anything more, it is essential to work with your provider to ensure safe detoxification and minimize side effects.
Chiropractic Care for Allergy Relief
While chiropractic care is not directly related to immune system function, it plays a key role in keeping your body moving efficiently.
When joints are restricted, it can create compensations in movement and posture, leading to tension, discomfort, and inefficient healing.
By addressing these restrictions, your body can function more optimally, which may help with allergy-related discomfort.
✅ Encouraging Proper Movement: Restricted joints in the neck and upper back can contribute to muscle tension and poor drainage, making allergy symptoms feel worse. Chiropractic care helps restore movement, allowing for better function.
✅ Supporting Sinus Drainage: Gentle adjustments and soft tissue work on the neck can help reduce muscle tension that may contribute to sinus pressure and congestion.
✅ Enhancing Overall Well-Being: When your body moves better, it can function more efficiently. Chiropractic care helps patients feel less tense and more balanced, which may support overall comfort during allergy season.
If you’re experiencing tension, discomfort, or sinus pressure that worsens during allergy season, chiropractic care may help keep your body moving and functioning at its best.
Acupuncture: A Natural Approach to Allergy Relief
Acupuncture is an evidence-based therapy that helps regulate immune function, reduce inflammation, and open up airways to improve breathing.
In Eastern Medicine, the root of allergy symptoms is often linked to imbalances in specific organs—most commonly the lungs and liver.
Acupuncture treatments can be tailored to support these systems, helping the body return to its natural state in a few ways: .
✅ Regulating the Immune System: Acupuncture balances immune responses, reducing histamine release and inflammation to ease allergy symptoms and build long-term resilience to triggers.
✅ Clearing Sinuses: Using distal points on the hands and feet along facial channels can reduce sinus pressure, ease congestion, and support drainage—especially helpful when the face feels too tender to touch.
Gentle cupping or gua sha may also be incorporated to enhance circulation and relieve sinus tension.
✅ Reducing Stress & Inflammation: By releasing endorphins and guiding the body into a calm, parasympathetic state, acupuncture soothes the nervous system, quiets inflammation, and creates space for true healing to unfold.
If you struggle with seasonal allergies, a series of acupuncture sessions can help train your body to respond more calmly to allergens—without the side effects of medications!
Book an appointment today and take the first step toward seasonal allergy relief!