Brain swelling and small intestine help

by | Mar 1, 2007 | Columns, digestive system, fasting, Healing Lyme, miscellaneous, neuro/brain fog, Symptoms | 0 comments

Dear Stephen,
What else can I take to reduce brain swelling? What helps generate tissue for the small intestine? I have an irritation there and if I eat too much or drink too much it opens up and hurts. I take 4 gms sodium (Real Salt) and 4 gms vitamin C per day. I have gone thru the three week herx at week 20, 21, 22 on the Salt/C protocol for lyme. I had very strong body chills, swelling in my head (no headache), brain fog, some rage and leather/numb face. The head swell or brain swell is of concern. To help with toxin removal during this time I added milk thistle, red root, artemisia annua, boneset and sarsaparilla. These have all helped. The boneset is most noticeable in relieving the chills and cold body feeling. This is the first time I have felt warm in many years! It feels great to be warm. Currently I am taking one sarsaparilla 3x a day. Using a high dose increases the brain swell. Less and I get a swelling as well in different area. With the artemisia annua I have woken up a few times at night choking/coughing up thick mucus. OVERALL I am feeling much better. My ears are working better. Hearing is much clearer than in the past 4 years or so. Very noticeable clear crisp sounds. The twitch from my left eye lid is gone. My energy level is good. My stomach problem is less. I eat cooked food, smaller quantity 4x a day, Gottschall SCD diet, no dairy, no grains. I have very good and frequent bowel movements. My lower left eye lid is still swollen and I use the rue fennel eye wash 3x a day. My eyes are less itchy.



Stephen’s response:
I would suggest a juice fast for your intestines, please see my book The Fasting Path (see bookstore) for details. A water fast would be even more effective but I have a number of considerations about those with lyme doing one. Mainly, I think that the level of fatigue they normally experience would be extremely exacerbated on one, so I think a juice fast would be much better.

As to the brain swelling: I would suggest that you use the supplements for lyme neurotoxins along with knotweed as well as adding a ginkgo tincture. These should help clear that up in a month to six weeks. If they do not, please email again.

Stephen

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  • Stephen Harrod Buhner

    Stephen Harrod Buhner was an Earth poet and an award-winning author of twenty-four books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine including the acclaimed book Healing Lyme: Natural Healing & Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis & Its Co-infections.

    Stephen came from a long line of healers including Leroy Burney, Surgeon General of the United States under Eisenhower and Kennedy, and Elizabeth Lusterheide, a midwife and herbalist who worked in rural Indiana in the early nineteenth century. The greatest influence on his work, however, was his great-grandfather C.G. Harrod who primarily used botanical medicines, also in rural Indiana, when he began his work as a physician in 1911.

    Stephen’s work has appeared or been profiled in publications throughout North America and Europe including Common Boundary, Apotheosis, Shaman’s Drum, The New York Times, CNN, and Good Morning America. Stephen lectured yearly throughout the United States on herbal medicine, the sacredness of plants, the intelligence of Nature, and the states of mind necessary for successful habitation of Earth.

    He was a tireless advocate for the reincorporation of the exploratory artist, independent scholar, amateur naturalist, and citizen scientist in American society – especially as a counterweight to the influence of corporate science and technology.

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This protocol was incredible. After only a few weeks most of my symptoms were gone. After six months all my symptoms were gone… it has given me my life back.

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Stephen Buhner is no longer living and this Q + A column on Planet Thrive is closed to new questions. It will be kept on our website so readers can access vital information in the archives, communicate with each other in the comments section, and find herbs, books + lyme adjuncts in our directory. If you want to read more of Stephen’s writings, please see his website at: stephenharrodbuhner.com.



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