Babasia treatment with Artimesia Anua

I'm not sure since I've never used a artemisia tincture, but you'll want to post the strength of the tincture (ie: ration of herb:alcohol) in order to get a good answer from somone else.

babesia has developed resistance to basic artemisia. YOu need to use derivatives.

see this article which has the lates info

http://www.townsendletter.com/July2015/babesia0715_3.html

Artemisia or sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) may prevent a malaria infection by just working in the harvesting and tending of this herb. (See Figure 7 of Artemisia annua.) But to kill Babesia, semisynthetic derivatives are required. Qing Cai Zhang, the expert herbal physician sent to the US at the request of our nation, has discussed Babesia treatments.34 In his artemisia and double-potency Artemisiae-2 products, he uses artesunate, a synthetic modification of sweet wormwood. Please note: this is not wormwood (Artemisia absinthum).


One routine Babesia treatment used by Lyme-literate MDs (LLMDs) and functional medicine healers is artemisinin. I wrote in three texts that this derivative is dated, weak, and not even potent enough to kill malaria.35,36 The inability of artemisinin to kill malaria due to resistance is one of many reasons that top malaria agencies are looking for and using other artemisia derivatives.

Artemether/lumefantrine (Coartem or Riamet) is one medication that is partly an Artemisia derivative. This effective malaria medication is also often an effective Babesia medication, and does not have the "yellow paint" taste of atovaquone. In the US it only comes as a tablet: 20 mg of artemether with 120 mg of the synthetic lumefantrine. In many other nations, a generic is 4 times as potent. It is an appealing, small tablet that is dosed 8 tablets daily for 3 days for the treatment of malaria. That dose is profoundly too high for Babesia. Patients may detect benefit at a dose as low as ¼ to 1 tablet a day. You can determine the upper dose with your physician. I was concerned about the risks of artemether 10 years ago, but after seeing and reading about its safe use in millions, I no longer fear this option.

My LLND say's 7 days on, 7 off

Rikky1 said...
>>One routine Babesia treatment used by Lyme-literate MDs (LLMDs) and functional medicine healers is artemisinin. I wrote in three texts that this derivative is dated, weak, and not even potent enough to kill malaria.35,36 The inability of artemisinin to kill malaria due to resistance is one of many reasons that top malaria agencies are looking for and using other artemisia derivatives.

not so sure this is gospel for babs. several prominent LLMD's are still using artemisinin and getting good results.

LLMD MR has Artemisinin as one of his Tier 2 treatments. (Tier 1 being Atovaquone combos)

Tier 2 treatments work 75 to 80% of the time (based on his experience)