Can Babesia be beaten naturally?

rowingmom - has used Buhner's protocols to heal her daughter, and then herself. I could be wrong, but i think she herxed on the babesia protocol...was testing it out for her daughter...and then realized she had babesia....She has healed on herbs alone.

I hope that what I wrote was correct and not a figment of my imagination!!!

Maybe do a search on babesia treatment with Buhner....or even try putting rowingmom in the search.

I was cured of Babesia with herbs only. There was no doubt I had it when the air hunger and drenching night sweats hit. Anyone that says it can't be done just hasn't done their research.

I would encourage you to keep moving through the Buhner protocol.

since i started sida acuta or whatever its called last night it caused my braig fog worse, air hunger and sweats along with my other herbs n treatment

Rowingmom,

I'm curious about your daughter's symptoms. I had my blood draw last Monday so I don't know ifmnt diagnosis will be Lyme. I'm still trying to find an LLMD but will probably travel out of state to use someone who is a know quantity. From my symptoms, its a pretty sure bet that I have Lyme with at least Babesia (those drenching sweats are a killer) and probably Bartonella.

I would have been exposed about 35 years ago and I have two kids. My son has always had some of the same symptoms. During my investigations, i asked on the forum about the possibility of passing it during pregnancy. The answer was a resounding yes and my husband and I were shocked to see symptoms described that we have seen in my son since he was 2 or 3.

My son has also been diagnosed with ADHD and Asperger's as well as fine motor deficits in his hands. It's tough finding the right balance when you have a child who tests 3 or 4 years ahead of their grade level but can't print their name.

My real question though is if your daughters has experienced rages. My son also had growth issues and had to be given growth hormone several years. He is no longer on the growth hormone and is the size of an average 16 year old. Many of the symptoms he had seemed to go away and I thought maybe his immune system caught up.

However, friday night he had an explosion of rage that was completely out of proportion. He tops me by at least 6 inches and it was actually scary. So I wondered about the rage or other related symptoms.

I guess I'm looking for a little reassurance that other parents have seen this resolve with treatment. My son has not been tested, because I don't want to have this conversation with his pediatrician until I have some concrete info like me testing positive. Especially since there is so much controversy about treatment.

Sorry if this is intrusive and you can tell me to buzz off if so choose. I won't be offended.

The life cycle of a red blood cell is four months, so you have to treat babesia for at least that long. Don't worry that you're not seieng results yet.

Actually, it's kind of in between.

Human red blood cells (RBC), after differentiating from erythroblasts in the bone marrow, are released into the blood and survive in the circulation for approximately 115 days.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3678251/

Night sweats usually indicate Babesia, especially if they are "drenching" sweats for no other reason.

There are several good natural protocols, but I don't remember (sorry!!!) if you use abx or natural protocols???

DazedPete1 said...
Hi all,

I don't tolerate babesia meds well at all. They all seem to cause terrible ringing in my ears. I've been on Cryptolepis and artemisinin for about a month and though I herx, I'm yet to feel any real progress. I've read conflicting things on whether or not babesia can be cured with herbs alone. Some have said that the herbs can help but are not curative.

I really don't want to trash my ears so I'm hoping that all it takes is time. I will be adding Sida Acuta to the mix when it arrives in a few days. Wondering if anyone has had success treating it with just herbs.

Sida Acuta out of the three is supposedly the most effective. It is not abnormal during the first month to have the impression you are declining, it is most often due to the mass evacuation of toxins. If after 3 months you still see no improvements then you are welcome to try other natural alternatives. If you are really motivated you can try other techniques simultaneously as long as they coincide.

Traveler which herbs did you use for babesia? I've got to find out what's in my homeopathic remedy?

Unfortunately, my doctor's handwriting was horrid!! So, I'm not sure what all I used. Sorry! Here's what I was able to figure out:

there were so many danged herbs that I used during the time that I was being treated for Babesia, but now that I've sat down and gone through it all much more carefully, I can see that most of them were used for symptom relief.

From what I can make out, the main herb used to treat my Babesia was Artemesia.
Zang agrees with this:
www.lymehope.com/DrZhangHandout2.pdf

and although Buhner used to, he's recently decided that Sida Cuta works better for more people, although Buhner does admit that Artemesia will work for some people:
buhnerhealinglyme.com/the-protocols/#BABS

For those that are interested, I also used ear tacks a lot during this period and they were applied most often to the "Shen men" point, Autonomic point, and Zero point. And I actually did feel better when using these as I was going through treatment.

My doc had me use a combination of herbs that she mixed to increase my micro-circulation called:
Dang Gui Si Ni San (no, not a misspelling, just hard to find info on)

And a variety of herbs for treating symptoms.

I also used green tea during my treatment of Babesia.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20025823

Since I can't verify what was used (my doctor moved out of state to take care of her elderly parents), I have chosen to treat my reinfection with Buhner's Babesia protocol. It just may be a while before I get started with it due to my adrenals slowing down the progress of my Bart treatment.

Jackie Moon - How high of a dose did you use and did you pulse the artemisinin?

Also interested in Jackie Moon's reply.

I'm currently doing 600mg twice a day, 3 days on 4 off.

Herxed the first 2 weekends, now herx symptoms seem to have leveled.

Wondering if I should up it a bit.