Chinese herb treatment for lyme - effective?

Hi Matt,

I'm currently 7 months into my CFS diagnosis having fell unwell in Nov2013. Prior to was a very fit guy, 34 years old. Now i had to stop work, life is not the same.

I'm 6 weeks into my TCM treatment and can't report any significant improvements in my condition. I have been tedted negative for lyme but have since found out there are other tick/insect infections namely babesia, bartonella and ricketssia, you can get these tests on the NHS fi you can convince your GP.

What i wanted to tell you with regards to my own research on lyme and infectious agents in genral is nutramdeix have a range specifically designed to deal with lyme and virues etc People appear to be using these to great effect with lyme and other infections. There is also a garlic extract called allisure might be worth checking out.

I'm the same too Matt, 6 weeks into TCM with 2 acupuncture sessions/week so i have had 12 in total, along with herbal tea 3times/day 7 days week, i feel i should not be at the stage where i am thinking i am wasting my money, but i am. I planned on doing 12 weeks, so might do another 2 weeks and if then still the same i will quit. It's costing me about £125 week.

Hi Matt, what dose and duration did you have of doxycycline, uk doctors give a low dose, in America even early onset they give 200 mg x2 daily for 6 weeks here they give 100 for x 2 daily for 2 weeks, life cycle of bacteria is 4 weeks so you need a minimum of 4 weeks to kick it. My hubby has had 3 lots of 100 x 2 daily and did nothing, 400 a day for 4 weeks that did the trick for 8 months then came back, he then had another 21 days and he is well again, there is an American paper written in 2008 by doctor Joseph something google that and have a read.

Artesimin is very good for Babesia if you have that as a co-infection and it also kills Lyme. Just go slow because as a natural anti-microbial you may herx quite badly at first.  

Hi matt. I don't know about the herbs tho I have read a lot of positives about Samento, but I can tell you my experience with lyme. My daughter caught lyme in August 2007 and finally diagnosed in February 2008 by which time she was bedridden, in a lot of pain and mentally wiped out. The nhs gp gave her several one week and eventually a 2week course of antibiotics between September and November 07 not knowing what it was then said it was post viral fatigue even tho she was becoming more and more ill. Luckily through my own research I eventually learned about lyme and a private environmental health hospital in Herts who instantly made a clinical diagnosis and also sent off blood to usa and germany, at huge expense but which confirmed it along with lots of coinfections. She was on three different antibiotics concurrently and max dose ibuprophen for what ended up to be 3years - it took a couple of months for any improvement to show, and whenever we tried taking her off earlier she became ill again, not always immediately but within a month, so the private doc just resumed/tweaked the antibiotics until eventually she managed to stay reasonably well. The fatigue and arthritis lingered for some time after but gradually improved and happily now she is mostly well and living a normal life apart from occcasionally recurring arthritis in her knee. She had stomach and digestive pain from the drugs but i believe if she had had omeprazol these could have been avoided.We paid for all the tests and consultations but our nhs gp agreed that the antibiotics could be issued under nhs. I don't know if this would still be the case. But there can be light at the end of that tunnel. hope this helps and hope you start to feel better soon. Recovery for my daughter was very gradual.