Dear Stephen,
Does it matter when the herbs are taken with relation to meals? Either with meals or between? I’ve been on some herbs, such as reishi, that I’ve been directed to take on an empty stomach to be most effective. Just want to make sure I’m using these new herbs correctly. Thanks for your help!
Stephen’s response:
Nope, take the herbs whenever and with whatever.
Stephen
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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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is it ok to take tinctures mixed in water?
Yes, you can dilute tinctures in water.
How should I start using cryptolepis? Is it !ike starting banderol & samento where I began with 5 drops each on an empty stomach & slowly built up to 30 drops 2 x’s/day? Also should cryptolepis be used 3 x’s/day unlike ban & sam ?
Thanks….
Hi I see Stephen says it doesn’t matter whether you take with food or not, but I have just been reading that saponins can increase the permeability of the gut (this effect is used in some chinese formulations specifically to allow some components to enter through the gut wall that normally wouldn’t be able to). I am wondering whether saponin containing herbs may in fact allow substances from food to pass through that shouldn’t, and may be a problem for so many of us that have allergy issues due to the immunomodulatory effects of Lyme and coinfections?
I was diagnosed with two strains of Lyme 80 days after infection I’ve been taking 200 mg of Doxycycline a day and I’ve been using teasel wormwood cat’s claw spilanthes black walnutand tu fu ling.
I’m supplementing with 7 grams of vitamin C and using detoxifiers like Chlorella berberine milk thistle astrologus and fenugreek also ashwagandha. My lyme doctor recommended only 21 days of Doxycycline.
I’m going to finish my course in about a week and that will actually be a 35 day course.
I’m eating healthy lots of fiber veggies protein no Dairy no gluten trying to eliminate sugar as difficult although not using refined sugar. Staying well-hydrated. Sleep is a problem difficult to get more than 5 hours using all the typical amino acids and CBD oil that covers the falling asleep part.
Does anyone out there have any advice comments criticisms.
In the beginning it had affect the speed of my heart at one point a hundred 35 beats a minute. After 4 weeks of treatment now on all of the above my heart rates back to normal and I don’t feel very fatigued that seems to be fading.
Had a few powerful herxheimer effect episodes. But seem to feel much better afterwards.
Any comments or advice be greatly appreciated I’m considering possibly starting a 30 day course of amoxicillin after possibly 30 days after finishing this course of Doxycycline.
I don’t want to take any chances on this I also don’t want to overdo it.
How can I treat Morgellon’s
Dear Frank I hope you are doing much better. I too had cardiac conditions which ate the very thing that brought me to the ED. I treated myself with the protocols for all the coinfections because frankly no conventional practitioner tests for. I saw the records of 3 anonymous patients that had over 20 different positive infections via $1000 comprehensive test. Better safe than sorry.
Can you tell me which test is comprehensive for $1k? I’m looking at igenex which is $2700 for the most comprehensive
Hello,
Would you mind please telling me what herb would be best to add to your core protocol for debilitating, burning nerve pain, specifically in the feet, due to Lyme disease?
Thank you very much