Buhner Healing Lyme

The protocol for lyme labored under some specific difficulties. The main one is that many with lyme experience severe to moderate cognitive impairment. The protocol needed to be one that would put less pressure on that population and their families, so pre-manufactured capsules or tablets worked best.

Further, I have had long experience in treating chronic conditions such as hepatitis C and chronic fatigue and again, an extremely long history of using tinctures. Over time I have found that some tinctures are exceptionally effective and those I continue to use. But as time has gone on I have begun to regularly find that the whole herb is best.

With other conditions like chronic fatigue or HCV I really like people to take the whole herbs as a powder, all mixed together, just before bed and up to a half cup of the powdered mix at a time. The body is then able to take from the herb what it wants and to excrete the rest. With tinctures, not all the active parts of the herbs are extracted. Evolutionarily, our bodies are used to whole plants, not tinctures and I have found this approach much more effective over time.

I am particularly uncomfortable with polygonum being used as a tincture. My preferance here is strongly in favor of the whole wildcrafted plant in capsules. The Source Naturals standardized resveratrol is my second choice.