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Many herbs and seasonings, the typical ones like used for Italian cooking, are high in histamine. Cinnamon is especially high and is one of the foods that dropped out first.

Here are a bunch of links to various immune related conditions.

There’s the mastocytosis and there’s histamine intolerance.
Mastocytosis is a disorder of the mast cells where you either have too many (mastocytosis) or you have the normal amount but they trigger to release histamine VERY easily. That’s what I have (MCAD- Mast Cell Activation Disorder).

The Mastocytosis Society
http://www.tmsforacure.org/

This video explains what the disorder I have is all about.
Mast Cell Activation Disorder is a kind of mastocytosis.

Mast Cell Activation Symptomatology
http://www.tmsforacure.org/video.shtml

Allergy Drugs Fight Obesity and Diabetes in Mice
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=21970

New aspect of liver abnormalities as part of the mast cell activation syndrome
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18662284

Allergy meds slim down obese mice
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/45912/title/Allergy_meds_slim_down_obese_mice

Histamine intolerance is similar to lactose intolerance. It is a deficiency of an enzyme called diamine oxidase, which binds to histamine in foods and helps flush it out of your body. Weirdly, NCSD can eat very high histamine foods, stuff I haven’t been able to eat in years.

This condition is widely known in Europe but try finding a doctor in this country who is interested in hearing about it.

Here are some links on histamine intolerance.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 85, No. 5, 1185-1196, May 2007
Histamine and histamine intolerance
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/85/5/1185?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=gastrointestinal+food+allergy&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT

Histamine and histamine intolerance.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17490952

Histamine Intolerance
http://foodallergies.about.com/od/commonfoodallergies/p/histamineintol.htm

International Chronic Uticaria Society
http://www.urticaria.thunderworksinc.com/pages/lowhistamine.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20070830124324/users.bigpond.net.au/allergydietitian/fi/amines.html

http://www.histrelief.com/

http://www.rainbowminerals.net/histamine_factor.html

http://roosclues.blogspot.com/2009/09/histadelia-and-low-histamine-diet.html
http://roosclues.blogspot.com/2009/09/histadelia-and-low-histamine-diet.html