Orthodox medicine has no cure for allergies, only treatment, and, according to Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.,
“You can depend on most doctors to largely ignore the cause … unfortunately, their treatment is often worse than the disease, especially since the relatively safe folk-measures of yesteryear have been replaced by the sophisticated, dangerous drugs of modern medicine.”
Since runny eyes, irritation, redness, fullness in the sinuses and other allergy symptoms are caused by histamines, antihistamines are often prescribed to dry mucus membranes.
However, antihistamines can cause serious heart problems and should not be used with alcohol, sedatives or tranquilizers.
More recently Canadian researcher Lorne Brandes, in an article published in the May 1994 Journal of the National Cancer institute, has produced research showing that certain antihistamines (Claritin, Hismanal and AtaraXT) make cancerous tumors grow faster in lab rodents.
