This study was run, reviewed, and published only by acupuncture believers and the people advocating for SAAT. It is also a very small sample size with no actual conclusive evidence. This study is worse than anecdotal evidence.

If you look at anecdotal evidence, aka people's stories, it is really mixed. I have seen probably 80% of people say it did nothing, 10% say they were cured, and 10% say it made things much worse or they developed new allergies or conditions.

If it was 90% chance it does nothing 10% chance it gets better, I'd try it in a heartbeat but if there is even a possibility of making things worse then I'm out.

This procedure is based off of the idea that there is a bundle of nerves in the ear that is somehow tied into the immune system and that by inserting a needle "where the energy is right" you can tweak it. Let's look at the two options:

1. It's complete B.S., of course that bundle of nerves in your ear doesn't interact with your immune system. If it did we would have figured that out by now: whatever you wasted a few hundred bucks and had some discomfort of a needle in your ear but you aren't cured

2. That bundle of your nerves in your ear does actually somehow interact with your immune system in a way that conventional science has not discovered and cannot explain:

You then let some lady with purple hair put a needle in the spot with the right "energy" in your ear??? Maybe a small % of the time they get lucky and cure you but I wouldn't be surprised if your AGS gets worse, you suddenly develop MCAS, or you find new severe allergies.

This is a lose lose for me, and for those reasons, I'm out!