For as long as she can remember, Janine Jacks has battled food allergies.

"In my case i would get really bloated that evening or even the next day. Sometimes i would get diarrhea," Jacks said. 

Tired of having to avoid her favorite foods, she decided to try the Allergicare system at her chiropractor's office.

"What allergicare is literally reprogramming the nervous system and the immune system so people don't suffer from allergy problems," said Dr. Ray Nannis, Jacks’ chiropractor.

There are no AllergiCare outlets in Oregon or Washington. At least one watchdog group is skeptical of this treamtment, suggesting it's "clinically proven to lighten wallets."

Patients are hooked up to a biofeedback machine that Dr. Nannis says pinpoints food, seasonal, airborne and environmental allergies by sending frequencies into your body.

Those allergies can then be treated by using alternative medicine.

"It's a combination of 8000-year-old acupuncture, without needles now; 200-year-old homeopathy and brand new state of the art laser technology, " Dr. Nannis said.

Treatments only take about 90 seconds, but patients routinely have to undergo a series before the allergy is corrected and that can get expensive.

Dr. Nannis says on average patients will spend between eight and 1800 dollars.

 Jacks has had nearly two dozen treatments so far, and said it seems to be working.

"The big thing is I'm not as bloated and as far as clothes and appearance, I'm real happy about that,” Jacks said.  “I'm sleeping better. I just kind of feel like there's been a weight lifted off of my body." 

She says as good as she's feeling, it's been worth the time and money.