Article May 9, 2011 ISSUE

A healing solution to allergies

By Candace Du Mars

Pure Mind gives out an atmosphere that heals and saves. — Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 260

A relative once told me that he had been freed from seasonal allergies. He smiled and added, “Yeah, I moved out of the Willamette Valley—no more pollen.” Certainly, he wasn’t criticizing the magnificent beauty of this Oregon river valley, which early pioneers thought of as the Promised Land; but he was voicing the longed-for freedom from the limitations that allergies seem to bring to so many treasured places, products, and activities.