Instructions to A New NAET® Patient Before Beginning Treatment
I. Introduction
The prospective NAET® patient is required to read Say Good-bye to Illness or Say Good-bye to Your Allergies
or listen to the audio version of the book, “Say Good-bye to Your Allergies” before coming for the first treatment.
NAET® is a method that helps to balance energies in the body. According to Oriental medical theory, when one’s
body energies are maintained in a balanced state, one does not suffer from most health disorders that arise from
an energy imbalance. According to NAET® theory, allergies cause energy imbalances in the energy meridians,
also known as energy pathways. An energy blockage is the primary cause for any allergic reaction towards any
substance. When the energy blockage from an allergen is removed via NAET®, that particular allergen has not
been shown to produce adverse reactions in the body on future contacts. NAET® is a mild, energy balancing,
non-invasive, gentle procedure. It has not been shown to cause any long-term adverse effects on anyone within
the last twenty years. While going through NAET® treatments, patients should try to keep their symptoms under
control by taking necessary medications, therapies or other modalities. The patient is required to seek care of a
primary care physician while getting NAET® treatment. If you suffer from a specific problem, you should also
seek care of an appropriate medical specialist to manage health needs related to your condition. NAET® is only
an energy-blockage removal treatment. NAET® is not a primary care procedure.
II. Before the First Treatment
1. When you arrive at the office, these guidelines will be provided to you or your guardian or caretaker. You
(they) MUST read and comply with these rules before beginning the testing procedures.
2. You should bring in a copy of ALL previous medical records, laboratory and radiological reports. You will be
required to complete the following forms in the office: Personal data information sheet, history forms, symptom-
survey form, and a consent form.
3. If you have a history of anaphylactic reactions toward any allergen, you must tell the NAET® practitioner
before beginning the tests. Doing so, your NAET® practitioner can take adequate precaution to prevent you
from becoming anaphylactic during treatments.
4. If you have a history of ANAPHYLAXIS, you should inform your practitioner on the very first visit before
beginning the testing and treatments. People with history of anaphylaxis should ALWAYS be treated through a
surrogate. They should wash their hands or rub both hands together immediately after each treatment. If you
have severe allergies or anaphylactic history on any basic group of allergens, (Egg, milk, wheat, fish, etc.) those
allergens should be treated after completing rest of the Basic Fifteen groups. People with anaphylaxis are not
required to hold the sample during the 20-minute waiting period.
5. NAET® Anaphylactic protocol SHOULD be followed strictly while getting treated. Your NAET® practitioner
will instruct you appropriately.
III. Before Each Treatment
6. PLEASE do not wear any perfume, perfumed powder, strong smelling deodorant, hair spray, or after-shave
and do not eat strong smelling herbs like raw garlic, seafood, etc., when coming to the NAET® clinic for
treatments. If you suspect something is responsible for causing an allergic reaction, you may bring the item to
the NAET® office in a thin glass container with a lid (as in a baby food jar with lid), wrapped in brown paper or
a brown paper bag. Please do not bring items in plastic containers. Plastic containers cannot be used in testing.
7. There is NO smoking allowed in or around the office. PLEASE take a shower before you come for a treatment,
and wear clean clothes to avoid smells of herbs, spices, perspiration, etc. Various smells can cause irritation
and reactions in other sensitive patients in the clinic waiting room. Please do not eat or drink in the office.
Another patient in the office waiting room might react to the smell of your food.
8. Wear minimum or no jewelry when you come in for a treatment. Avoid wearing large crystals or large
diamonds. NAET® can be done while wearing your own clothes provided you wear simple, loose clothes without
ANY art work or embroidery with crystals, beads, stones, metals, glass or plastic pieces. It is fine to wear
simple wrist watches while testing or treatments. Avoid watches with sharp needles, cell phones, calculators,
tape recorders, photo camera, etc.
9. PLEASE do not wear any guns or knives to the office even when they are part of your job requirements.
Please do NOT bring sharp metal objects, large keys, sharp toys, heavy toys, or toy guns to the office.
10. Please turn off your cell phones inside the waiting room and in the treatment room. Other sensitive patients
might react to your cell phone. Cell phones should be off and kept away from your body during NAET® testing
and desensitization treatment.
11. ALWAYS eat before you come for the treatment. You should not take NAET® treatments and acupuncture
when you are hungry. If you have a long wait in your practitioner’s office, please bring a snack with you, leave
it in the car or outside the office. Five to ten minutes before your treatment, please go outside the clinic and eat
your food, wash your hands with soap and water, and rinse your mouth before you return to the clinic for the
treatment.
12. Please WASH your hands with soap and water before beginning the NST (Neuromuscular sensitivity testing
procedure). Hand-washing will remove any residue left on your hands from other substances.
13. Do NOT treat with NAET® if you are extremely tired, worked a night shift, or worked too many hours
without a break.
IV. During Each Treatment
14. You should NOT have any companion with you standing or sitting within your magnetic field during treatment.
You should not bring any children or pets to the treatment room while you are being treated. You should
be alone with your NAET® practitioner while you get tested or treated with NAET®.
15. Since NAET® is a mind-body balancing procedure, the NAET® practitioner needs to receive permission
from your conscious and subconscious minds before performing any energy balancing procedures. Signing the
consent is the permission from the conscious mind. But permission from the subconscious is necessary for a
successful NAET treatment. For a trained practitioner it takes only a few seconds to seek permission from the
subconscious. In rare occasions, it has been shown that certain person’s subconscious mind does not grant
permission to perform NAET® testing or treatment. In such cases, the NAET® practitioner may NOT proceed
with NAET® testing. Instead the NAET® practitioner will make appropriate referrals for further evaluations
related to your health conditions.
16. The NAET® practitioner must get permission from YOUR subconscious mind before each NAET® desensitization
treatment as well. On a particular visit, if your brain did not give favorable signals for a new treatment,
you will be rescheduled for another date. This is for your best benefit. It has been shown that even anaphylactic
cases also can be treated successfully for the anaphylaxis-producing allergen when the NAET® practitioner gets
permission from the patient’s brain before doing the treatment. You may rest for a few days until your brain and
body are ready to get more treatments or you may be able to receive other immune system supporting treatments
like chiropractic adjustments, acupuncture, massage, Yoga, etc. while waiting.
17. While performing NST, the patient SHOULD wash or rub his/her hands together for 30 seconds between
touching different samples. The energy of the previously tested sample has shown to produce false results if the
energy of the previous item has not been removed from the hands before touching a new one.
18. While receiving NST testing or NAET® desensitization procedures PLEASE make a loose fist with your
free hand (one without the allergen) in order to prevent contact between the table or your clothes with your
fingers while testing.
19. Do not eat or chew gum or candy DURING NST testing or NAET® treatment.
20. The NAET® practitioner will not have ANYONE observing the treatment or taking notes, from a close
proximity. The distance varies with each patient for each allergen. Your practitioner will know how to determine
the distance.
21. If you are unable to test yourself (if you are a child, old person, too strong, too weak, disabled, advanced
stage of pregnancy, etc.), then you SHOULD be tested through a surrogate so that the practitioner can get
accurate information about your sensitivities. You should maintain skin-to-skin contact with the surrogate during
testing and the surrogate should rub his/her hands together or wash hands between testing different allergens.
22. You could also be treated through a surrogate’s body and get the exact benefit as if you were getting treated
directly. Patients in advanced stage of pregnancy, morbidly obese, with psoriasis or other debilitating skin
problem, back surgery, scoliosis, or a history of anaphylaxis, etc., SHOULD receive NAET® treatments through
a surrogate.
V. The Basic 15 treatments
23. The NAET Basic 15 treatments are in fact the basic essential nutrients for everyone. If you are allergic to
them your body may not receive adequate nutrients. That will cause to lower the immune system function and
may cause to have various health disorders due to nutritional deficiencies brought on by allergies. When your
immune system is maintained at a normal level, not only you feel better overall, your allergic sensitivity will be
reduced with the result, you need fewer NAET® treatments to get maximum results.
VI. Reasons Why Treatments May Need to be Given Out of Order
24. If you have allergies to white rice, or pasta, they can be treated before the Basic treatments.
25. Hard-to-avoid items like prescription drugs should be treated first in the doctor’s office, then treated at home
through self-treatment every two hours. In case of a drug that cannot be avoided, you should treat by gatemassage
before and after you take the drug as well as massaging the gates every two hours for the 25 hours after
the initial treatment.
26. When a patient has an ACUTE problem, practitioners will treat the acute problem before resuming the
normal order of treatments if the patient’s brain gives permission to do so. For instance, when a patient is
reacting to a particular food that was eaten recently, a medication that is essential for the patient’s survival (like
pain medication, cortisone, antihistamine, antidepressants, heart medication, etc.), fire-smoke, accidental exposure
to fumes, drinking water, city water, acute emotional imbalances like the death of a loved one, etc., can be
treated as an acute allergen before completing the basic fifteen treatments as long as the body permits. If someone
has severe reaction to pollen, weeds, cigarette smoke, regular drugs like chemotherapy drugs, antibiotics,
standard emotional blockage removal treatments, person-to-person allergies, etc., can be treated after completing
six basic treatments (after completing sugar mix). When the treatment for acute allergen is completed satisfactorily,
you should go back to the basics and continue as before.
VII. After Treatments
27. You must wash your hands with plain water after treatment BEFORE you leave the office. After the treatment
if you cannot wash or rinse your hands, vigorously rubbing your hands by interlacing your fingers for 30
seconds will be sufficient.
28. After the NAET® desensitization, PLEASE do not exercise vigorously for 6 hours. A mild walk is fine.
29. AVOID exposure to extreme hot or cold temperature after the desensitization treatment.
30. Do NOT bathe or shower for 6 hours following the NAET® treatment.
31. Do not read or touch other objects with your FINGERS during the 20 minutes waiting period after NAET®
treatment.
32. Do NOT cross your hands or feet during the first 20 minutes following the NAET® treatment. Lying or
resting with a calm mind will be beneficial. You could visualize positive, warm energy circulation through the
12 meridians while resting. Meditation is allowed. After an emotional NAET®, you are advised to think positively
during the 20 minute waiting period about the issue which was treated.
33. Your practitioner WILL ask you to avoid the treated allergen for 25 hours or more as indicated by his/her
testing after the completion of the treatment in the office. After the treatment you should avoid eating, touching,
breathing and coming within 5 feet of the substance that was treated following 25 hours after treatment. It is also
suggested after completing your treatment satisfactorily for an allergen, that you consume a small amount of
the item daily for three to four days. If the treatment is not completely finished, you will bring out some minor
symptoms and your practitioner can investigate the reasons behind those symptoms and eliminate them. Another
benefit of introducing the treated allergen into your body is to reconfirm the brain and nervous system
about the harmlessness of the item so that your nervous system will not forget about this allergen in the future
even if you never ate them later for years.
34. It is highly recommended that after three NAET® basic treatments, you TRY to consume foods and drinks
from the desensitized groups only. Add new items to your list as you complete each treatment. This will reduce
your overall discomfort while going through the rest of the treatments and your NAET® treatments will be more
effective and you will be able to see results with NAET® faster. Depending on your immune system the treatments
can be scheduled. A patient with severe allergies and poor immune system can only tolerate one treatment
per week. But patients with better immune system have shown to tolerate three or more treatments per week.
Your practitioner can test your body for the appropriate treatment plan.
35. If you are a highly SENSITIVE person, or if you experience any discomfort during the 25 hour-avoidance
period after the treatment (crying spells, depression, unusual emotions or unusual pains anywhere in the body,
etc.), you may need to balance your gates every two hours on your own at home while you are AWAKE. When
you sleep, you do not need to set an alarm to wake you every two hours. Instead whenever you wake up, you can
continue treating again.
36. The practitioner can determine the APPROXIMATE number of hours of avoidance by using question response
testing for patients who have difficulty avoiding food for 25 hours. Infants and children can be treated in
the evening or before going to sleep for hard-to-avoid items. Please ask your practitioner if you have questions.
37. If someone has a hard time avoiding the allergen for a specific amount of time for any particular reason, he/
she should BALANCE his/her gate points every two hours as well as before and after exposure to the allergen.
In case the patient has developmental disabilities, caretakers should be instructed to massage the gate points
(Read Page 58 in the book, Living Pain Free by the author) every two hours during the 25 hours and also before
and after touching the treated allergen. Your practitioner will teach you the self-balancing technique if you do
not understand by reading the book, Living Pain Free. It is advisable for you to BUY this self-help book with
Illustrations since it can help you to control or reduce various allergic reactions and discomforts arising from
untreated allergies by massaging the appropriate acupressure self-treatment points whenever the need arises.
38. No adverse reactions have been noted when a person eats food INCLUDING the food he/she was treated,
for 20 minutes following the retest of the initial treatment for the allergen. The 25 hour-restriction begins 30
minutes after the completion of the treatment. Do not eat HEAVY meals before or after the NAET® or acupuncture
treatments, but DRINK a glass of water before the NAET® treatment. Energy moves better in a well hydrated
body. Drink 4-6 glasses of water through the day after NAET® treatments to help flush out the toxins
produced during the treatment.
39. You are advised to MAINTAIN your own treatment and food diary in The Guide Book after each treatment.
You should carry this record with you if you decide to see other NAET® practitioners in another city, state or
country during your vacation or other travel time and your treatments can be continued uninterrupted. Write
down all the good and bad symptoms you experience during 25-hours following treatment and bring it to your
practitioner on your next visit. If you have frequent health problems and you do not know the cause of your
problems, write down your daily activities for a month in a separate notebook. Record all the food and drinks
you consumed even if they were in small portions and record also anything new you have purchased in the
house or work area since the problem started. Bring your record to the office and let your NAET® practitioner
test you for the items in your list to find the culprit.
40. You may need to take EXTRA precaution while you get treated for environmental substances: (mineral mix,
metals, water, leather, formaldehyde, fabric, wood, mold, mercury, newspaper, chemicals, flowers, etc.). Apart
from staying away from these items, you may also need to wear a mask, gloves, socks, shoes, gowns, scarves,
earplugs, etc. You can also massage the gate points every two hours while awake during the 25-hour period if it
is not completely avoidable.
41. During the 25-hours or afterwards, if you get a life-threatening reaction from an allergen (either from the
one you were treated in the office or another one), you MUST seek emergency help immediately from a primary
care physician or emergency room, or by calling 911.
42. Once every month or so, or after completing treatments for TEN to FIFTEEN allergens, your practitioner
will repeat NST on all treated allergens. If an allergen wasn’t passing over 50 percent at the time, they will be
boosted up again. No avoidance is necessary at this time.
43. AFTER the Basic Fifteen treatments with the practitioner, patient should begin to gather a small sample of
every day food and drinks and holding the sample, balance the gate points every night before bedtime.
44. DRINK one 6 ounce-glass of water first thing in the morning. Drink 1 glass of water before bedtime.
45. Remember to CHECK with your practitioner for the item you treated, after 25 hours, and at least within one
week to make sure you have completed the treatment.
VII. Additional Information about NAET®
46. NAET® is a HOLISTIC procedure. It balances the entire body including: physical, physiological and emotional
functions. Everyone needs balance in all these levels of the body to be healthy. If one area is not balanced
properly, other areas cannot function normally. NAET® emotional balancing procedure has been shown to produce
marvelous results in people who suffer from environmental illness, chemical reactions, chronic pain disorders,
other chronic illnesses, autism and ADHD, etc. This emotional balancing treatment will be provided to the
patient without additional cost if done in conjunction with a treatment for another substance. After completion
of Sugar treatment (after completing six basic treatments), NAET® emotional balancing treatments can be administered
upon request.
47. NAET® emotional balancing procedures do NOT replace the need for traditional psychological or psychiatric
help. If you are getting treatments in these areas prior to NAET®, please continue with your therapies and
medications as needed. If you for any reason do not like to be balanced emotionally by your NAET® practitioner
(due to religious reasons, etc.), you should inform the NAET® practitioner on the initial visit, then emotional
balancing procedure will be excluded from your treatment plan.
48 If you did not complete the treatment, or if you could not complete the specific NAET® treatment for some
reason, do not panic. NAET® is a mild, energy balancing, non-invasive, gentle procedure. It has not been shown
to cause any long-term adverse effects on anyone since its discovery within the last twenty-three years. Your
temporary symptoms may be due to the incomplete treatment and may continue for up to two or three weeks
maximum. Drink about 4-6 glasses of boiled cooled water daily to help with your energy circulation.
49. Eventually the particular symptoms will wear off and you may return to your pre-NAET® status if you did
not repeat the treatment for the unfinished allergen. For example, if you suffered from insomnia prior to NAET®
treatment, you may continue to have insomnia; if you suffered from pain disorders, you may continue to suffer
from pain disorders, etc. An allergen which was treated halfway has not shown to render any benefit to the
patient at all. Human body forgets and adapts to new ways fast. The incomplete treatment is forgotten in about
three days to a week in most cases, but in some cases it has shown to take as long as three weeks, then the body
learns to focus on current events. Thus, in a few days, an incompletely treated allergen is usually viewed by the
body as an allergen that has never been treated before.
50. But if you had to stop the NAET® treatment for the particular allergen because you had no means to get to
the office, then you can balance the energy for the particular item at home on your own by holding the item
while massaging the gate points once every four hours while awake for two to three weeks or as short or as long
as the body needs to view that as a friendly item. This method will only work after one has been treated initially
with a trained practitioner, and the treatment was not completed for some reason. If it is an uncomplicated,
individual item, like a piece of sourdough bread, a piece of meat, a hot dog, a laxative or a pain pill like Tylenol
or another drug, a particular piece of fabric (a shirt, scarf), etc., then the patient or the caretaker can complete the
treatment in this manner at home. CAUTION: this should be done only on a single allergen, never try on a group
of allergens.
51. After completing treatment for an allergen, if NST tested strong on retest but the patient is still suffering
from prior symptoms, the patient should be allowed to rest a few days to a couple of weeks without any new
NAET® treatment. This is in fact to rule out or to determine if the desensitization towards the particular allergen
was successful or not; and to determine if the presenting symptom is arising from another source or not. If the
particular allergen treatment is incomplete, if you wait a few days the NST will produce a weak response either
on its own or with some combinations. Then the treatment on the allergen itself or with a combination can be
repeated at that time. While waiting to detect the outcome of the previous treatment, it is OK to boost up the
immune system with acupuncture, chiropractic treatments, massages, herbs or other therapies. Or the patient
can continue to self balance for the item at home as described above.
52. Sometimes, the patient continues to have the same symptom but NST does not show any weakness on the
previously treated allergen. In such cases it has shown that the patient passed the treated allergen but another
allergen capable of producing similar symptoms has been identified as the culprit. Usually people with history
of allergies react to more than one or a few allergens. When one allergen gets desensitized and eliminated from
the body, others will get noticed easier, hence the symptom of the previous allergen continues until all the
allergens are desensitized with NAET®.
53. When one has a weakness in any particular area of the body, every allergen affects that area of the body
giving rise to symptom similar to the first one. This pattern is especially noticed in patients with asthma, sinus
problems, autistic disorders, attention-deficit hyperactive disorders, chronic pain syndrome, as in degenerative
arthritis, fibromyalgia, lupus, headaches, migraines, backaches, myofascial pain, peripheral neuropathy, PMS,
insomnia, manic or depressive disorders, etc. Because of this mechanism, until you complete NAET® for Basic
Fifteen, you may not see much changes in your health in these cases.
54. When you are allergic to a substance, your body produces lots of endogenous toxins. After you are treated to
an allergen, it takes 24 hours for the body to detoxify the allergen from all 12 major meridians (each meridian
takes 2 hours) naturally to get the toxins out of the body. SOME patients may not have 24 hour avoidance or
restrictions. Some may pass the allergen right after the treatment; some may take just a few hours; some may
take 25 hours, yet some others may take 40 hours. Even though NST demonstrated that you would clear the
allergen in 10 minutes or so, it is to your advantage to avoid the item for the whole 25 hours (24 hours plus one
hour guard-band) allowing the body to detoxify naturally. After a few NAET® treatments, you have the option to
go on a good detoxification program using different products (herbs, minerals, etc.) to clean up your system.
But if you faithfully follow the 25-hour avoidance, you may not need any special detoxification since the body
is able to naturally eliminate the toxins in time if given a chance.
55. You are advised to continue ALL medications and other treatment modalities as they have been prescribed
unless otherwise directed by the doctors who prescribed them. PLEASE do not stop any other treatment you are
on: medication, therapy, chiropractic treatments, massages, etc.
56. NAET® treatments have NOT been shown to interfere with any other treatment. In fact, if you can keep your
body free of toxin accumulation and keep your symptoms under control by using medication or therapies,
NAET® has shown to work better.
57. For FEMALE patients: Treatments are not advisable during the first three days of menstrual cycle.
58. NAET® treatments during pregnancy have not shown to cause any adverse effects to the mother or child so
far. In fact tremendous benefits have been noted in both cases. When the mothers receive adequate NAET®
treatments during pregnancy (at least 15 basics and all known allergens of the mother treated), their children are
born with very few allergies when compared with their siblings who never had exposure to NAET® before birth.
59. When you go through the NAET® treatment program, you will be advised to get supplemented with appropriate
amount of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients for a while if it is indicated. When the nutrients are
supplemented appropriately pain and discomfort arising from various disorders like chronic fatigue, general
body aches, arthritis, and other pain disorders due to deficiencies, etc., will be reduced.
60. If you do not show any improvement in your health status after successfully passing Basic ten to fifteen
allergen groups at all three levels, probably NAET® is not for you. Please ask your practitioner to refer you to
another source of health-care facility.
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