What is the most aggressive treatment for bartonella? Symptoms are leg pain, calf pain, dizziness, eye issues, and chest wall pain. Any suggestions?
Research is ongoing, this is the most up to date protocol:
Hawthorn tincture, same
Japanese knotweed, (tincture, same dose (from same sources as Sida acuta, above), or capsules from greendragonbotanicals.com 2 capsules 3x daily)
ECGC 400mg +- daily
Houttuynia (Yu Xing Cao – 1st Chinese Herbs, powder – use “LYME” code at checkout for 10% off) 1 tbl daily
L-arginine 5000 mg daily in divided doses
Milk Thistle seed, standardized, 1200 mg daily
All for 30 days.
Fyi – though I found Houttuyunia to be very helpful I had to stop. It increased my resting heart rate initially by about 25% which went back down after two weeks. However when I added another antibiotic into my regimine my heart rate sky rocketed. Talked to docs and they all told me to get off houttuyunia. After that I was able to ramp up on biaxin very fast. Bart symptoms started coming back but when I tried to add the Houttuyunia back in, HR went back up and palpitations increased. FYI!!!
Why just for 30 days? What do we do after that?
How do i take the tinctures? Should I mix them in water or juice or Gatorade?
Bartonella resides in the hematopoietic, or stem cells in the bone marrow that develop to produce all the blood cells. It can invade and attach itself to RBC or erythrocytes and seems to prefer RBCs because of iron. The life of a red blood cell is about 120 days. That’s how long I treat. Read everything by Dr Ed Breitschwerdt.