Dear Stephen, I am extremely sensitive to plant hormones or precusors, which makes certain herbs and essential oils impossible for me. I worry about resveratrol therefore. Will knotweed have a similar effect?
Plant estrogens
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Getting pregnant with lyme
Dear Stephen, I would like to know if you would suggest a maintenance protocol during pregnancy, I mean, herbs that would not harm the fetus but keep borrelia under control.
Inflammation Control (stephania extract)
Dear Stephen, Stephania tetrandra extract in Inflammation Control (IC) is the first herb I started on your protocol last August. It has helped tremendously with my joint and tendon pain.
Japanese knotweed and hot flashes
Dear Stephen, I’ve tried both the Source Natural resveratrol and Plum Flowers Hu Zhang and both give me sleep disabling hot flashes. Is that because of their phytoestrogens knocking my stronger estrogens off?
Mixing Cowden and Healing Lyme protocols
Dear Stephen, I am on the Cowden protocol and am considering adding in andrographis and japanese knotweed and just wondered if you had any suggestions.
Bell’s palsy of the gut
Dear Stephen, Do you have any herbal suggestions for the lyme associated symptom, Bell’s Palsy of the Gut? I am having some success with Triphala and Neem.
Severe skin burning
Dear Stephen, My primary symptom from lyme is severe skin burning. I have not been able to wear shoes/socks for five years. What do you suggest to stop this awful pain?
Intolerance to knotweed
Dear Stephen, My question now is about knotweed. I could take it for a few months last year in low doses but recently developed a clear reaction to it.
Lyme carditis
Dear Stephen, You say stephania root is contraindicated in lyme carditis, but elsewhere in that chapter of Healing Lyme it says you’ve found it effective in treating arrhythmia, angina and myocardial infarction.
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