[lymeeducator]

The best treatment for Lyme is a balanced immune system. Some people can be treated by a single course of Doxycycline, most relapse after 6 months and CDC incorrectly indicates that the cause is unknown. It's still Lyme. 2 of the 3 Lyme forms are resistant to antibiotics. Proper treatment will take months, or longer if coinfected, and require multiple, pulsing of antibiotics or herbals (yes, they are quite effective on me and others).

[gamblor956]

Couldn't find any published scientific results on the efficacy of "herbal" treatment for lime disease or "pulsed" antibiotic treatments from websites/doctors that weren't trying to sell the treatment.

Do you have any actual scientific evidence to back up your claims or are you part of what the New Yorker has termed the lyme quackery?

[adsfqwop]

Herbal treatments can be quite helpful. Plants have developed compounds to fight various organisms over millions of years.

It's quite logical to assume, even without requiring a peer-reviewed double blind placebo controlled 100 million study, that nature has made it so, otherwise we would have single groups of organisms ruling the planet unhindered.

The fact that life on earth displays tremendous diversity and balance, from the macro level down to the micro level, means almost every organism has an equal and opposite adversary somewhere.

Plants and trees have a tremendous number of compounds developed over millions of years to fight diseases with. There is a reason, for example, that the Materia Medica for Chinese medicine is over 1300 pages of microscopic text. It's over 2000 years of accumulated experience on plant substances, while our modern pharmaceutical medicine is barely a few hundred years old.

There is also a reason why many pharmaceutical companies spend resources investigating and cataloging native plant substances. It's not that they want to sell herbal medicine, it's because they want to develop synthetic analogs for patenting purposes.

Which is also the reason you will never find as many scientific articles on herbal medicine, as you will find on pharmaceutical medicine. One is a billion dollar patent-protected industry, while the other is not.