Artemisia Annua

Hi Palermo,

I was told (by Dr) to use it once a day in pill form for 3 months....and honestly bought it and have it at home but not used it. But then read about that is better to pulse in order to avoid resistances, so I would choose pulsing, Buhner recommendation seems Ok.

Bee.

ahhh thank you for your answers

@pinkblossom, how much are you taking? or how much did your llmd suggest?
cant find anything...

buhners books highlight the fact that the liver rapidly ramps up excretion rate of artemisinin's within a few days of starting to take it - so that on the 7th or 8th day the blood levels are below what is useful and making continuous dosing unlikely to be helpful.

this was the reason for using it for 7 days at a time with a break for 1-3 weeks in between

fragility and solubility of the active compounds were an issue in the herb - making it difficult to get effective doses from dried herbs ( traditionally in china where its use for malaria originated - the fresh herb was mashed in warm milk) - so he was in favour of using the artemisia based drug artemisinin to get sufficient dose.

there was some evidence quoted that other compounds in the whole herb may offset or delay the livers ramp up effect to some degree - so he suggested using some of the whole herb - together with artemisinin to try to offset this effect

people use up to 1500mg of artemisinin for 3 days on 11 days off on a 2 week cycle

based on its use for malaria - i think that approach was on Dr MR's website

https://s3.amazonaws.com/hoth.bizango/assets/22795/Key_Supplements_in_The_Ross_Lyme_Support_Protocol.pdf