lyme herbs

I have been looking into buhners herb protocol lately because i have lyme, bartonella and mycoplsma. Can i take herbs for lyme and bartonella at the same time and do it together or do i have to take them seperately. Will buy herbs from lymeherbs.eu because i am from europe, but they don't have sweet warmwood, black walnut and artemesia as well as fresh houttuynia tincture. I plan on ordering thoose on Teaselshop(if u type in google). Other namy for this website is Greem Vitality. I am interested if anyone has any experience with them and if the qualit is good. Anyone has any other suggestion on where i can get theese herbs(i am from eu but am open to ordering somewhere else too).

Yep as above - best to trial each by adding one at a time and learning how they affect you

some of the members here are extremely sensitive to even the tiniest doses of herbs - and others hardly notice they're taking them - so its widely variable and you wont know which until you try - although the people who are most sensitive to herbs are usually also sensitive to other things like chemicals, medications, fragrances etc

you can and indeed should take a combination of herbs to deal with the target infections you believe you are dealing with - so yes its normal to take both Lyme and bartonella herbs
this is another reason to trial one at a time - as often its just not practical to take very possible herb for every infection - and you therefore can use your experiences of how each herb effects you from your trials to decide which to use in combination

most of the herbs from buhners lyme protocol are mainly anti-inflmmatory or immunomodulating - whereas some of the herbs for bartonella are more directly antibacterial - like cryptolepis, sida and houttuynia

i have been using buhner's herbs extensively for a few years now and i do think they have helped

i was also initially concerned that i needed to get fresh houttuynia tincture - but this turned out to be necessary - at first i simply doubled the dose of tincture made with dried herb to compensate for assumed loss of potency
but it turned out that the herx like reactions from the tincture made with the dried plant were plenty strong enough even at the standard dose at the
others have used it as a a tea made from the dried leaf - or even just ate the powder with good results
so fresh tincture is not needed

sweet wormwood is just the English name for the herb artemisia annua - so that may simplify things for you

i have used lymeherbs.eu for the majority of my dry bulk herbs and have been happy with the service and quality

i hope its of some help

all the best!

People do combine methylene blue with herbs, and it's fine.

How much of an herb you start with depends on how sensitive you tend to be when you take ingested treatments. Do herxes leave you in bed for a week or more? Do you have mast cell activation syndrome, lots of allergies, sensitivities to chemicals, etc.? If so, then I would start with one drop per day and move up slowly. Some people even start with one drop every three days at first. Others can start with a full dropper or two per day and be fine. So the answer depends on you!

with tinctures its fine to either combine them into one combination tincture - or take them separately - it doesn't matter which

if the intended dose is the same for each - you can just mix them in equal parts then take 3x the amount of the mixture

methylene blue has toxic heavy metals in the manufacturing process - and has to be purified specifically for human consumption - so you must buy only pharmaceutical grade methylene blue
its worth only using those with 3rd party testing to show the contaminant levels ( there will always be some )

i don't think there is any significant issue with the amount of alcohol in tinctures with MB

at least none i have come across in my reading - and i have experienced no ill effects in practice when used alongside herbal tinctures

please let me know if there are authorative references for this out there

however, i would not advise anyone who is chronically ill to use alcohol in significant quantities recreationally - as it has too many adverse effects on our health that push us in the wrong direction - but a few ml in tinctures is very unlikely to have ill effects - and i have seen no direct evidence of interaction with MB

the problem with non-alcoholic tinctures is they are generally far weaker than alcoholic tinctures because the solvents used - glycerine or vinegar - are generally very poor solvents for the active compounds in herbs compared to alcohol.

to reduce alcohol intake from alcoholic tinctures i simply place the tinctures in a glass on the reptile warming mat - which warms them to around body temperature for a few hrs before i take each dose - this is sufficient to evaporate the majority of alcohol

using the herbs as teas or powders are other alternative that are both likely to be more effective than non-alcohol tinctures