We are great, thanks! Still on low doses (7 drops daily) of a few tinctures, lots of vit c and magnesium. We are super healthy and rarely get sick. Life is good!...
Exactly. Buhner says that using several different extraction methods at once will produce the greatest number of compounds out of the herb. Tea is a hot water extraction. Cooling the tea will...
The second book is all you need, except perhaps a consult with one of his associates if you find you are having trouble. Be careful with his recommended dosages, they are far too high to begin with....
Have you tried CSA? It worked on my daughter's negatively testing babesia-like-organisms....
K has been completely asymptomatic for several years now, in remission from lyme/bartonella/babesia with a combo of Buhner's bart/babs protocols. However, we have been eating tons of greens (ala...
We use organic cilantro tincture (from Flower Fairy Herbal) and DE. 5 drops of the tincture 2x daily with 1 tbsp. DE (usually mixed in 1 tsp organic psyllium husk powder) 2-3 hours after. Do not use...
I prefer NuHerbs over Plumflower. You can get organic NuHerbs knotweed from 1stChineseHerbs....
After treating K for bartonella for 2 years with antibiotics and getting improvement to only 80% our LLMD gave up treating. So off I went on my own. Buhner's full bart protocol (at 1/4 dosage) held...
Right on CD! We would not have wasted 2 years taking multiple antibiotics. I should have read Buhner's books right away (funny, I initially ordered them but then headed to a prescribing LLMD) and...
Those are 2 herbs specifically recommended for bartonella. Sounds like a bartonella herx. K's treatment for bartonella ALWAYS resulted in an escalation of rage issues. Herbs for babesia did not....
Both K and I have had this symptom which to me feels like an electric jolt in a very small area of the skull. For me it was above and just behind my left ear. In my opinion it is an inflammation of...
CSA (cryptolepis/sida/alchornea) combination tincture helped us much more than did sida alone....
Yes, dry cough is a babesia symptom and could be caused by a Mepron herx. When the LLMD couldn't get K past 80% improvement with bartonella treatment alone (biaxin, rifampin, plaquinel, tindamax,...
Babesia is usually responsible for symptoms of air hunger (feeling like you are unable to breathe, chest pressure, dry cough, sighing), while bartonella is usually responsible for anxiety, panic...
For bartonella K variously trialled combinations of Bactrim, biaxin, rifampin, plaquinel, minocycline, azithromycin, tindamax and malarone. After 2 years of this and only gaining 80% our LLMD threw...
In hopes of NOT goofing this up, you are saying take my 1 teaspoon of each of the 5 herbs and place them in my drinking cup, pour HOT water in and let sit till it cools then drink? I only ask for...
Rowingmom, Why l-carnosine?[/quote] K has had difficulties from the time her 15 month MMR vaccination resulted in a loss of motor/speech ability. Many parents of children on the autism spectrum find...
Thank you GH. I have a feeling that chelation has been a big part in our healing. We also use BioSil (orthosilicic acid) daily which Klinghardt uses to chelate aluminum....
ANA Speckled type is indicative of a mixed connective tissue disorder (like lupus or Sjogren's), although the test isn't very specific. The tests which were run later for lupus were negative. For...
Yes. Making infusions is a very good way to extract different compounds from each herbal powder. Buhner recommends using hot water and then allowing it to cool to room temperature. Different...
Here is her timeline. I have posted it several times on the forum: Born Sept 2001 – born with light / sound / touch sensitivity. Nursed and slept well, appeared healthy, accomplished first year...
It took about a week at 10 drops 3x daily. I was so excited that I increased to 15 drops 3x daily but within another week she started to herx with babesia symptoms (symptoms she had never had...
Thanks. I just replied to Chapelle with his list from facebook. Nice to see Kate Gilday from the WoodLandEssence site is a treating herbalist!...
CSA and red root were the only babesia additions that we made to Buhner's bartonella protocol. Not only did the 2 tinctures significantly help her cognitive function and ability to concentrate - so...
I just happened by and saw Chapelle's post. Sorry I overwhelmed you with all of K's supplements. It was overwhelming for me too, but we are through with all that now. I have whittled down the...
We use Wahls, so does this blogger: http://realfoodrebel.com/ ...
Looking at the light switches in my bathroom and not remembering how to use them. Not remembering how to put the car in park and turn it off once I have reached my destination. Not remembering how to...
"Scratch/stretch" marks are associated with bartonella infection which should be investigated given your son's work with feral cats. K's stomach pain (which would double her over and drop her to the...
We use powdered herbs as well. Start with a very low dose - houttuynia is quite antimicrobial so can cause significant herxing if the dosage is too high. Buhner also recommends infusions (essentially...
We are symptom free but continue to use herbs, mushrooms, minerals, vitamins, probiotics and nutrition to support immune response, detoxification and the body in general. K finished with antibiotics...
I agree. I learned more from this site (and Buhner's books) than I did from either our LLMD or ND. It's a great place to hash through issues with knowledgeable people who want to help....
If your doctor is hesitant to do the proper testing, I would assume (given symptoms and the area of the country in which you live) that you all have lyme. Depression/raging/bipolar behaviour is very...
Good for you Questing. This is a wonderful diet, but only needs to be used until your gut is healed. Then you can start adding other items from say.... the Wahls diet!...
We steam or wilt the majority of goiterogens (cruciferous), but also eat raw kale, cabbage and other vegetables in salad. I haven't been able to eat a raw beet yet....
So much of what we do is trial and error; you are doing exactly the right thing 1000Daisies. Experimentation reveals so much!...
K used PureEncapsulations liposomal glutathione throughout her treatment. Only after her symptoms had all resolved did we switch to NAC/l-glutamine/glycine supplementation (which provides the...
I highly recommend the site! She addresses infection, parasites, detoxing and nutritional deficiency which are issues for everyone on this forum....
PeteZa and Girlie have given you really good suggestions as to how to titrate up dosages. K and I both healed using 15 drops of CSA 2x daily (8AM, 8PM) - 3x daily caused K to develop pretty extreme...
We use a modified version of Wahl's/PerfectHealthDiet (which allows cooked and cooled white rice and white potatoes as carbohydrate). We don't eat our greens raw, but wilt them a bit. Lots of...
Thanks Chapelle. Do you continue to take diflucan prophylactically, or just control with diet?...
K underwent CBT for several years addressing her social regression and inappropriate social responses which I now realize were caused by bacteria/protozoan induced brain inflammation (because they...
Start at very low dosages with any herbs you try. WoodLandEssence has a combination tincture of the Buhner's recommended babesia herbs - CSA - cryptolepis/sida/alchornea, which we use. Be aware that...
Hi!! Good to see you here! I would think the best thing to do is to try it at low dosage to see if there is a paradoxical reaction. Paradoxical reactions are fairly common and can also happen with...
Bartonella is often the underlying culprit of psychological issues; it's endotoxin causes brain swelling (encephalitis), so if you are treating bartonella, die-off may result in increased psych...
I have been denied access to the home page and can't get to any of the other pages without it....
I did. I accessed the home page and clicked "join group". I then saw a "pending" response. However today I can't even access the home page. I just get a message that the page is not available to me....
K didn't do well with artemisinin, it caused her tinnitus to flare, but she did take malarone for about 6 months, along with plaquinel, azithromycin, minocycline and pulsed tindamax. Brutal huh? With...
I have apparently been denied entry into the facebook group. Any other suggestions?...
Tingling is often due to inflammation of the microvasculature and decreased blood flow. Bartonella infects endothelial tissue and die-off can produce more inflammation there. Hawthorne is wonderful...