Lyme with bartonella


Dear Stephen,
I was diagnosed with the Fry Labs bartonella bug in March of 2010 and was put on 4 different antibiotics and bolouke for 4 months. I improved a lot but never fully recovered. I changed my LLMD for other reasons and have been up and down with symptoms ever since. My current LLMD clinically diagnosed me with lyme and I have been on minocycline and klonopin for almost a year. I was still having a lot of symptoms and looking for some answers when I found out about your protocol. I’m currently taking your protocol ( 6 weeks now up to 3×3 of each), my doctor’s antibiotics and bolouke. I feel like I’m starting over again, having a lot of my early symptoms returning (too many to list). Do you have any suggestions? Thanks for all your help and hard work with this disease.


Stephen’s response:
If you have bartonella, then you will have to treat it as well as the lyme. The best easy protocol for bartonella is:

Sida acuta tincture (from woodlandessence.com or julie@gaianstudies.org) ¼ tsp 3x day for 30 days
Hawthorn tincture, same
Japanese knotweed, (tincture, same dose as above, from woodlandessence.com or julie@gaianstudies.org, or capsules from greendragonbotanicals.com 2 capsules 3x daily)
ECGC 400mg +- daily
Houttuyina (Yu Xing Cao – 1st Chinese Herbs, powder) 1 tbl daily
L-arginine 5000 mg daily in divided doses
Milk thistle seed, standardized, 1200 mg daily

All for 30 days.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have active herpes, chicken pox, or shingles DO NOT USE L-arginine.

In general, the most important thing is to decrease the inflammation dynamics that are occurring in the lyme (knotweed), increase immune strength (cat’s claw, rhodiola tincture – ¼ tsp 3x daily, eleuthero tincture, same), and work on the bartonella. Plus addressing specific symptoms.

Stephen
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posted on January 3, 2012 in bartonella, boneset, Co-Infections, Herbs, japanese knotweed, miscellaneous
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Comments

  • Bea Seibert

    January 13, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    Have been waiting since mid October, but Woodand Essence should finally have the sida acuta in stock in another week or two weeks at the most.

    Reply

  • Bea Seibert

    January 13, 2012 at 7:49 pm

    Stephen,

    I did some research on arginine and found a couple of PubMed articles on using that amino acid for babesia and ehrlichia as well as for bartonella.

    I switched hubby from 1000 mg x 3 of niacin to the same dose of arginine and he feels it is much more helpful for babesia head swelling/pressure headaches. I am stopping the butterbur, vinpocetine and gingko capsules and the prickly ash tincture as they seem to have lost their effectivenes..

    Will try increasing the dose of arginine to your suggested dose.

    Thanks so much for continuing to update your protocols.

    Reply

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