Acupuncture can be highly effective in cases of nasal congestion so common in allergy presentations; so much so that I often treat such issues using acupuncture protocols alone. In cases of seasonal allergies with highly predictable causes such as obvious elevations of environmental allergens, I use a skeleton acupuncture prescription that can easily be fleshed out to target potential underlying patterns and effectively customized to the patient.
Stephanie Gregory, LAc, MAOM, Dipl. OM (NCCAOM)
Stephanie Gregory is an acupuncturist and East Asian medical provider with the Veterans Health Administration in Portland, Ore., combining traditional Chinese medical approaches with current biomedical understanding of conditions to treat veterans, with an emphasis on orthopedics and pain management. She is a graduate of the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, a former anatomy instructor at OCOM, and a doctoral candidate at Pacific College of Health and Science. Her undergraduate degree is in biochemistry from Duke University.