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The Healing Power of Pollen

Chapter Three: Hay Fever, Asthma, Allergies and the Persorption Phenomenon

‘Men are less sensitive to good that to ill.’ – Livy 10 B.C.

Those who suffer from hay fever and other allergies such as eczema and asthma are often very worried about the ides of actually consuming pollen. They believe that they are simply asking for trouble!

Experience is quite different. Although a very small percentage of people (estimates vary from 1 in 2000 to about 5%) find that propolis brings them up in a slight rash, pollen in not known to have any such effect. The reason for this is often given that hay fever is caused by wind-born pollens and that most pollen products are made from bee-gathered pollen. But this does not explain the desensitization effect of pollen, which often has, but not always, a very helpful and beneficial effect upon suffers from hay fever.

The distinguished natural doctor, Doctor Gordon Latto, talked to me about his results in his beautiful and organically cultivated garden just outside Reading one fine summer’s day when the bees were busy supplying his ten homemade hives with precious honey.

He took me to his cellar where he stores the honey and showed me many jars which all had one unusual factor in common. There was a thick messy looking scum on top of each jar. This was where the pollen which had not been filtered away had risen to the top. He gives his hay fever patients a little bit on the end of a spoon every week for about six weeks before the beginning of the hay fever season and the usual result is that they have reduced attacks in the first year and are often completely free from hay fever by the second year.

It is certainly worth trying pollen if you suffer from eczema, asthma, hay fever or a similar allergy because there are very many letters from former suffers in the files if the suppliers of pollen testifying to successful treatment often after many years of suffering. Examples of these are included in Chapter 15. On the other hand it must be realized that, as Doctor Richard Mackarness discovered, there are many unsuspecting allergenic substances all around us including many common foods, and often a cure will only be achieved by undertaking a short fast and then adding one item of food only to your diet every three days until you discover which have a harmful effect. This is best done under the supervision of a sympathetic practitioner who will make sure that you do not suffer any nutritional deficiencies.

A very interesting research project was carried out in Sweden in 1960 and reported on in Grana Palynologica Volume 2 in that year by Einar Helander who had treated, in the allergy department at Gothenburg, some 2,072 patients with pollen allergies. He chose 25 patients who were allergic to pollen but otherwise healthy and found that although they were extremely allergic when given a skin test made up of the ground tablets, when taken by mouth, even in a large dosage, such small amounts of pollen antigen were absorbed that he recommended a trial for the product in the desensitization of hay fever sufferers. Let us hope that this important trial is not too long delayed.

The Persorption Phenomenon

New research has centered on the remarkable observations that even a person who is sensitive to an allergenic pollen does not necessarily exhibit the symptoms of his allergy when taking pollen tablets. It is now thought to be because some of the pollen particles pass directly from the stomach into the blood-stream. Such passage is called persorption. This is far more rapid than the normal processes of digestion and indeed pollen can be observed in the blood and urine and spinal fluids only two hours after the pollen has been eaten.

Limskens and Jorde found in 1974 that when 150 grams of pure rye pollen were eaten between six and ten thousand grains were absorbed into the bloodstream. Upon examination the tough exine, or outer coat of the pollen, was found to be partially destroyed. A process that continues with time.

Although, much more study is needed and indeed is being undertaken on this remarkable phenomenon it is already believed that taking whole pollen tablets for some six months before the hay fever season may bring about immunity because of the absorption effect. The time may come when pollen tablets are made with different mixtures of pollens suitable for sufferers from different forms of hay fever.

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