Help Me Choose Some New Antibacterial Herbs

Currently on knotweed, cats claw and cryptolepis. One thing I notice is knotweed does not touch my neuro or cardiac symptoms. I get a lot of herxing and improvement in my muscles and joints, my vascular problems clear up great, but absolutely nothing going on with my stubborn neuropathy and cardiac issues. Cryptolepis on the other hand was the opposite. After taking 3 drops I was herxing in my nerves, brain and heart pretty dramatically and not so much in my muscles. It was a very satisfying feeling but I think it just drove them towards dormancy or something. Since then I've ramped up to 30 drops in a short period of time with less and less reaction and no further benefit. But I've taken 30 drops at once in the past and know i should be floored. Like insulation-peeling-off-my-brain-in-the-middle-of-the-night kind of floored. I guess low and slow works for some herbs and not others. I may start pulsing the cryptolepis to see if it does anything but anyways...

What I'm getting at is i need something new. Something that's going to hit my Lyme in the nuts. And particularly those neuro and cardiac symptoms. So what has worked for you folks? I'm not just looking for anti inflammatories or cytokine modulators. I'm doing those too, but whats really helped me the most is just killing those little *****. I'm trying to come up with a list of things to try but so far I'm coming up a little short of ideas. What I've got is:

Alchornea
Pau d' arco
Houttuynia
Artemesia
Uncaria rhyncophylla (? regular cats claw made me herx so I'm guessing theres some antibacterial quality to this one even though it's not considered a primary one)

I've heard some have success with Teasel

Thoughts on what's mentioned? What am I missing? I don't really care if it's part of a Lyme protocol or coinfection protocol. Only interested in hearing whats worked for different folks. This stuff is usually broad spectrum anyways

Hawthorne is for the heart.

Uncaria Rhynchophylla , excellent for Neuro I just wrote a post about this one from his book.

Tryptophan crucial also for neuro

Consider this: many of Buhners suggested protocols have many herbals in them. This is because they work best all together, in synergy.

They are supportive of each other and do things in our bodies that will optimize healing when working together.

I am by no means an expert, but I have noticed over that past year and from others that spoke with Buhner herbalists and have not been back here to post(so I figure they healed),

that the key sometimes is taking the herbals not so much in huge amounts at once but spread out through the day/night so that you them continuously working in your body.

I have seen improvement since I went to taking my 14 tinctures 3 X a day at about 3/4 the recommended doses.
Also making sure to use binders in between at least 4 times a week to help get rid of the toxins in my brain and body. This in addition to other detoxing.

I understand it is different for each individual, just sharing what has helped me move forward.

I wish you the best of healing, Jo

I used Olive Leaf Extract, and mimosa pudica early on. If I recall anything else I will edit this. I am on Woodland essences CSA and MYCO now. I am not including supplements that arent from plants.

As an aside, I believe I acted quickly enough to stop Babs from progressing but I credit the result to Tinidazole and not herbs.

My only specific symptoms of Babs was waking up at 3am and massive night sweats.

Although not an herb I am having good results with high dose Monolauren.

Thanks for all the responses you all.

10LymeB - thats interesting. I wouldn't have thought honey was systemic enough. I eat regular honey daily, but i guess it's not the same

goshawk - i should have clarified. I take everything 3 times a day I am in full support of the idea of synergy. Problem for me is i have been very sensitive to a lot of herbs so when I take a bunch of things and can't figure out which one I'm reacting too it's been difficult manage. My strategy now has sort of been to take the main support herbs like knotweed and cats claw which are also a little antibacterial. Then add in some heavy hitters to lower my parasite load (this is where I'm at now. just trying to find something that hits my neuro infections. crypto did at first then stopped). Then add in some more specific support stuff to tie up the loose ends. I've tried some support things early on like ashwagandha and dan shen and it just didn't do anything for me. I'm way too inflamed.

Aerose - these things aren't that specific. For example in stephens herbal antibiotics book he lists cryptolepis for aspergillus, babesia, bacillus, capylobacter, candida, entamoeba, enterobacter, e coli, herpes, klebsiella, mycobacteria, gonorrhea, malaria, proteus, salmonella, shigella and several strains of staph. He lists houttuynia in his antiviral book for acinetobacter, angiostrongylus, anisakis, aspergillus, bacillus, c jejuni, candida, coliform, haemophilus, listeria, etc etc etc. There's no reason to assume it does or doesn't work for Lyme. It just hasn't been studied. Lyme, at least the motile spirochetes, are pretty susceptible to most antibiotics so i think a lot of these broad spectrum herbs should cover it.

chickenarise - i used to take olive leaf from swanson with no effect unfortunately. i've also brewed the leaves without effect :/ I've never read anywhere that it was systemic and so i chalked it up to that. Good to hear on monolaurin! i've been interested in that one. I'm going to look into myco now as well. I need to look back into my rainforest herbs book too. I know they've got a lot

Peteza - I'm lucky that i don't actually need much for my heart. Most of those symptoms have died down. There just there enough to know that it's still infected and needs to be dealt with. i've been interested in andrographis but scared of the hives reaction lol. Idk why. Supposedly it's super rare. But like... what a way to ruin a few weeks. This may go on the list though. In baby doses until i see how i deal with it

That's interesting about the garlic. Going to stay away from that just because Lyme has given me some intractable BO and it's made me super self conscious. Love ginger too. Sometimes when my vascular symptoms are acting up I drink a strong dose of it and it helps a lot. Feels like it's fumigating my blood lol

Yeah more worried about the pores lol. I've got this issue with my pits lately. Scrub it with apple cider vinegar, soap, and shampoo and then add deoderant and only then do I not reek. Seems excessive.