Posted 6/10/2016 4:46 PM (GMT 0)
This will make you worse..I took this for months with someone I was working with before I knew I had lyme....I continued to get worse...so....don't take it..
that could be why I developed reynauds and levidareticularis because I didn't have those when this first went haywire in my body a couple of years ago..I just hope I can get over that too....
Can't wait til I can feel like I am doing something with these bugs
Stephen’s response:
If you are not currently sick, you can certainly take astragalus. The reason for not recommending it is that astragalus raises the parts of the immune system that are overactivated in chronic lyme. Those parts of the immune system are highly effective against lyme early on and help prevent or reduce the disease but if they are low to begin with and you are infected the infection can spread more easily. After awhile the immune system does ratchet up those parts to attack the lyme bacteria but by then the spirochete has altered itself and is no longer very affected by them, those parts of the immune system then begin to cause some of the lyme symptoms people have making the disease a kind of autoimmune problem. My book Healing Lyme goes into this in a great amount of detail.