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Healing Lyme
What is the most minimal lyme treatment?
with Stephen Harrod Buhner, master herbalist
HERB SOURCES RECOMMENDED BY STEPHEN BUHNER
Andrographis
400 mg tablets: Nature's Way
<400 mg tablets: Paradise Herbs
400 mg tablets: Planetary Formulas Full Spectrum
Japanese Knotweed (Resveratrol)
Green Dragon Botanicals
100 mg tablets: Paradise Herbs
bulk, wildcrafted: Woodland Essence
bulk and Source Naturals 500 mg tablets: 1st Chinese Herbs [Editor's note: As of September 2011, we have received reports that some people have had bad reactions to Source Naturals brand Resveratrol but have done fine with Paradise herbs. Sometimes the brand makes all the difference.]
Cat's Claw (Uncaria tomentosa)
500 mg capsules: Raintree
bulk, sustainably harvested: Raintree
Cryptolepis
tincture: Woodland Essence
Eleuthero (Siberian Ginseng)
Herb Pharm tincture - alcohol-based
Herb Pharm tincture - glycerite (alcohol-free)
250 mg capsules: Nature's Way
Stephania Root
Caution: New research has shown stephania
unsafe for use in pregnancy.
1st Chinese Herbs
Woodland Essence
ARTICLES BY STEPHEN BUHNER
The Use of Apis and Bi-Edta in the Treatment of Lyme Disease
Some Arguments against the Standardization of Herbalists
Gaian Voices Interview with Stephen Harrod Buhner
Depth Diagnosis in the Practice of Sacred Plant Medicine
The Lost Language of Plants
The Health Benefits of Water Fasting
Herbelegy
The Fall of Gruit and the Rise of Brewer's Droop
Paradise Lost: Of Healing, the Sacred, and Beer
The Yeast of the Ancients
BOOKS BY STEPHEN BUHNER
with Stephen Harrod Buhner, master herbalist
Dear Stephen,
I believe I have a longstanding lyme and babesia problem and I am now 39. I have gone through the last 7 years with Chronic Fatigue that although is severe, still permits me to walk about a mile a day and do activities like going to group meetings, and as well I can lift things like groceries- though I used to be able to move peoples entire apartments so its a major drag. I note that the TCM medicine Liu Wei Di Huang Wan has helped me a good bit-adrenal function is weak, but it does raise my heart-rate and blood pressure so I take very small amounts. Indeed its a very very good medicine for adrenals. Anyway I have resisted antibiotics for many reasons already written by yourself. My doctor recently had me on a combination of crypto-art-and enula for 3 months at low amounts. It helped a lot but still not enough. In your opinion were any of those three hitting the Lyme – as the Woodland essence people say on their website? If so I’ll gladly take that instead of andographis which puts me straight to bed! What might be some of the lighter herbs for Lyme? I simply cannot take the storm of a major die-off. I think you once wrote that knotweed might be one? Thank you very much.
I believe I have a longstanding lyme and babesia problem and I am now 39. I have gone through the last 7 years with Chronic Fatigue that although is severe, still permits me to walk about a mile a day and do activities like going to group meetings, and as well I can lift things like groceries- though I used to be able to move peoples entire apartments so its a major drag. I note that the TCM medicine Liu Wei Di Huang Wan has helped me a good bit-adrenal function is weak, but it does raise my heart-rate and blood pressure so I take very small amounts. Indeed its a very very good medicine for adrenals. Anyway I have resisted antibiotics for many reasons already written by yourself. My doctor recently had me on a combination of crypto-art-and enula for 3 months at low amounts. It helped a lot but still not enough. In your opinion were any of those three hitting the Lyme – as the Woodland essence people say on their website? If so I’ll gladly take that instead of andographis which puts me straight to bed! What might be some of the lighter herbs for Lyme? I simply cannot take the storm of a major die-off. I think you once wrote that knotweed might be one? Thank you very much.
Stephen’s response:
I would use knotweed and eleutherococcus tincture as dosed in the book. You might try the chronic fatigue formulation from Dry Creek Herb Farm in California. I developed it and it does help immensely for chronic fatigue. If you were going for the most minimal lyme treatment that would be: knotweed, cat’s claw, eleutherococcus.
Stephen
posted on December 26, 2009 | 3,605 views | tags: Borrelia burgdorferi, cat's claw, eleuthero, Healing Lyme, Japanese knotweed, lyme disease, lyme herbs dosing, resveratrol
Andrographis
400 mg tablets: Nature's Way
<400 mg tablets: Paradise Herbs
400 mg tablets: Planetary Formulas Full Spectrum
Japanese Knotweed (Resveratrol)
Green Dragon Botanicals
100 mg tablets: Paradise Herbs
bulk, wildcrafted: Woodland Essence
bulk and Source Naturals 500 mg tablets: 1st Chinese Herbs [Editor's note: As of September 2011, we have received reports that some people have had bad reactions to Source Naturals brand Resveratrol but have done fine with Paradise herbs. Sometimes the brand makes all the difference.]
Cat's Claw (Uncaria tomentosa)
500 mg capsules: Raintree
bulk, sustainably harvested: Raintree
Cryptolepis
tincture: Woodland Essence
Eleuthero (Siberian Ginseng)
Herb Pharm tincture - alcohol-based
Herb Pharm tincture - glycerite (alcohol-free)
250 mg capsules: Nature's Way
Stephania Root
Caution: New research has shown stephania
unsafe for use in pregnancy.
1st Chinese Herbs
Woodland Essence
ARTICLES BY STEPHEN BUHNER
The Use of Apis and Bi-Edta in the Treatment of Lyme Disease
Some Arguments against the Standardization of Herbalists
Gaian Voices Interview with Stephen Harrod Buhner
Depth Diagnosis in the Practice of Sacred Plant Medicine
The Lost Language of Plants
The Health Benefits of Water Fasting
Herbelegy
The Fall of Gruit and the Rise of Brewer's Droop
Paradise Lost: Of Healing, the Sacred, and Beer
The Yeast of the Ancients
BOOKS BY STEPHEN BUHNER
Heidy
May 4, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Dear Stephen,
Im was diagnosed with Lyme neuroborreloisis and positive for Batonella, my LLMD put me in a lot of herbs protocol but also Im on Biaxin ER 500 mg 2 tabs qhs and Septal Ds 1 tab bid. Im feeling weaker and im very dizzy.
Im also using your Buhners protocol, I use cats claw a day.
My concern is im very nauseated right now, what is my chances of recovery and I was told by my LLMD that it will take months or years for treatment.
But this protocol she put me in was helping tremendously , I sleep better without interuptions sometimes but not as bad like before. And my pain is a bit tolerable.
This site has help me and guide me to proper naturalistic healing. Im a number one fan for herbs treatment always has.
Heidy Ramos