Dear Stephen,
Is the dosage you recommend for artemisinin the same dosage we should use if we are consuming the whole herb? If not, how much of the whole herb is needed to yield a similar dosage?
Stephen’s response:
I no longer recommend artemisinin or artemisia. It can work but whatever you are treating
Sida acuta will work better, especially for babesia or bartonella.
Woodlandessence.com carries it.
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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Would Sida acuta also do the job for various amazonian blood parasites (which I must have had for many years but which got out of balance when my immune system got challenged)?
Angel
Can you explain why you no longer recommend artemesia or artemisinin? I have been taking the liposomal artemisinin from hopkinton. It is really helping when I am on it, symptoms do return when I stop
Hi A Weiss,
Here is one of Stephen’s past responses on the subject: https://buhnerhealinglyme.com/herbs/why-cryptolepis/. You can probably find other responses by checking the archives using the search tool or the topics in the drop down navigation menu. Best, Julie
Dear Stephen,
In Natural Treatment for Lyme Coinfections, Artemesia is part of your core protocol. However, in a Jan 14, 2012 online response, you said that you “no longer recommend artemisinin or artemisia as Sida acuta will work better, especially for Babesia or Bartonella.” SO is artemesia no longer part of your core protocol for Babesia?
Gratefully,
Laurie