Lyme Disease

[Guest guest]

Hi Kathy & all,

It's been my experience in treating Lyme's that how it manifests in the

first 6 weeks makes a big difference in how it needs to be handled. Some

people

present with a hot, quick, intense infection, with rapidly developing

symptoms. That kind of infection needs one type of approach.

The other presentation is much slower

Blessings,

beth

beth Buchele HMC*

Professional Homeopath

offices in

St. Louis Park, MN

and

Menomonie, WI _ www.healthnaturally.biz_

(http://www.healthnaturally.biz/)

*Homeopathic Master Clinician, Graduate of Northwestern Academy of

Homeopathy, Dynamis School of Advanced Homeopathy and Luminos Homeopathic

Master

Clinician Course

In a message dated 6/8/2008 9:23:32 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

realfoodie2003@... writes:

Hi All,

A friend of mine was bitten by a deer tick recently. She immediately

scraped it off and applied tea tree oil to the spot which became red

and swollen. Her homeopath suggested she take ledum, which she did.

She also went to the doctor and they want to put her on 3 weeks of

antibiotics as a preventive measure. Of course, she would prefer not

to do this especially since she doesn't know that she was actually

infected with Lyme disease. She still has the tick. Does anyone know

where she could get IT tested? She does want to make sure she covers

all of the bases to try to prevent the illness. We talked about

probiotics, using her infra-red dome and possibly having a

SCIO/biofeedback evaluation. Any other ideas? Will, what do you know?

Or what would Jerry Brunetti say about this?

Thanks,

Kathy

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[Guest guest]

Hi All,

A friend of mine was bitten by a deer tick recently. She immediately

scraped it off and applied tea tree oil to the spot which became red

and swollen. Her homeopath suggested she take ledum, which she did.

She also went to the doctor and they want to put her on 3 weeks of

antibiotics as a preventive measure. Of course, she would prefer not

to do this especially since she doesn't know that she was actually

infected with Lyme disease. She still has the tick. Does anyone know

where she could get IT tested? She does want to make sure she covers

all of the bases to try to prevent the illness. We talked about

probiotics, using her infra-red dome and possibly having a

SCIO/biofeedback evaluation. Any other ideas? Will, what do you know?

Or what would Jerry Brunetti say about this?

Thanks,

Kathy

[Guest guest]

I'm not positive, of course, about MN, but here in New York, the local Health

Dept will test the tick for a small fee (i think it was 20- last time my sister

got one done)...  Also, her doctor would definitely (or SHOULD) know where to

find that information for her.

This is definitely not something to play around with...  my neighbor's son (now

32) contracted Lyme Disease when he was in 7th grade...  it was a particularly

bad case, and he suffers in near agony Every Single Day... arthritis symptoms,

he says, are the worst...  He's also went completely bald by 12th grade... 

Granted, they weren't able to treat Lyme's as well as they do now...  It sounds

like she did the right things, so far.. but she definitely needs to get that

tick tested!    Also, a quick phone call to any local blood Lab would probably

have the information, as well

 

Candace Musmeci

Newburgh, NY

 

~Dipping into the Living Well...One product at a time~

Lyme Disease

Hi All,

A friend of mine was bitten by a deer tick recently. She immediately

scraped it off and applied tea tree oil to the spot which became red

and swollen. Her homeopath suggested she take ledum, which she did.

She also went to the doctor and they want to put her on 3 weeks of

antibiotics as a preventive measure. Of course, she would prefer not

to do this especially since she doesn't know that she was actually

infected with Lyme disease. She still has the tick. Does anyone know

where she could get IT tested? She does want to make sure she covers

all of the bases to try to prevent the illness. We talked about

probiotics, using her infra-red dome and possibly having a

SCIO/biofeedback evaluation. Any other ideas? Will, what do you know?

Or what would Jerry Brunetti say about this?

Thanks,

Kathy

[Guest guest]

Thanks Candace. Apparently the doctor's office said they don't test

ticks. They just prescribe antibiotics!

Kathy

[Guest guest]

LYME DISEASE is now the number one most rapidly spreading infectious disease in

the

world. One thing has never changed though, is that it only hits individuals that

are, for

whatever reason, immune depressed. In other words, not everyone that gets bitten

by a

carrier insect will come down with the disease.

Anyone who has heard Jerry Brunetti talk knows that he's been hit 4X with this

disease.

Either new episodes or reinfected. The TESTING is practically worthless. Don't

waste your

time. If you have symptoms you probably have it. Go ahead and agressively treat

it.

Incidentally, only about 38% of the positive cases have the classic " bullseye "

rash around

the bite site. You can have the disease without the diagnostic rash.

If I was your friend, I'd take Ledum homeopathically, I'd also take garlic

capsules, 1500 mg

triple-strength capsules 2-3 a day for about a month. Spirochetes hate garlic!

Garlic

chases it out of the body. They may also wish to treat it with the herbal

parasite remover,

Cat's Claw for several weeks as well. Antibiotics clear some cases that herbs

won't reach

but it's not my first choice, I try the herbs and use the antibiotics on the

resistant cases. If

you do take the doxycycline, follow it with probiotics for several months.

TICKS are only out for a 2-3 week period in the spring (right now!) so....SPRAY

UP when

you go in the woods. Use an HERBAL REPELLANT!

Will Winter

[Guest guest]

I forgot to add that local herbalist MATT WOOD probably has more experience

treating Lyme

patients than anyone in the US. He's saved many lives and uses a protocol

centered on

homeopathy and herbs. His pioneering work with TEASEL and other herbs is

featured in the

great book HEALING LYME by STEPHEN BUHNER. If you are dealing with chronic Lyme

symptoms you owe it to yourself to get acquainted with these two gentlemen.

Antibiotics have their place in chronic therapy but many patients fall through

the cracks and

people die every year even though they were on the antibiotic regime. Good

nutrition, good

minerals (garlic is loaded with Sulfur, a mineral parasites hate), and other

herbs can chase

this cousin of syphilis out of the body.

SPRAY UP if you are out hunting morels this week! Use HERBAL repellants.

Will

[Guest guest]

I recommend anyone who has bitten by a tick or suspects he/she has

Lyme's Disease to see Steve Tonsager of Flowing Rivers Acupuncture in

River Falls, WI. .

His treatment program has cured many people of Lyme's including my

husband. The medical community would be flabbergasted by this--in

traditional medicine Lyme's is very difficult to remove from the body

and usually plagues people for the rest of their lives.

According to Steve, Lyme's is much more common than we think; it can

lie dormant in the body and hide for long periods of time and hide in

tissues other than blood so that it is not detected in blood tests.

My husband followed the antibiotic regimen after being bitten by a

deer tick and was assured he needed to do no more. Although we

brought the tick to the ER with us, he tick was not even tested to see

if it was infected! The medical staff was very nonchalant about the

whole thing.

Months afterward he began having symptoms of Lyme's. Steve Tonsager

detected the Lyme's in his body and after two months, Alan was almost

completely free of the Lyme's and its physical symptoms! Amazing.