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Lyme Disease and Modern Chinese Medicine

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This book offers a refreshing approach on how to treat Lyme disease through the use of herbal antibiotics. The author has been treating Lyme cases for many years and is an expert in modern chinese medicine. His approach is simple, yet powerful, and involves the use of several Chinese herbal combinations to treat Lyme and co-infections.

Some of the book is devoted to discussion of the pharmacological properties of the herbs, which I feel is less useful to the layperson and perhaps more useful to a physician or biochemist. I would have liked to have read more about his approach to diet and lifestyle but the book is otherwise excellent. He outlines a full protocol for treating Lyme so that if one wishes to pursue healing without the aid of a physician, this book makes that possible.

Thank you, Dr. Zhang!

After suffering from lyme for a few years, I came across this book which was recommended to me by a friend. I found it very detailed and very informative. the author goes into great detail on what the ingredients of each of his products are and what they do. He also mentions dosages as well as short stories in regards to people who are taking his products. I contacted the author and he was very professional and showed a great understanding for how to treat lyme. I have been taking his products for a year now and have seen great results. i highly recommend reading this book to gain to a better understanding of the products used to help treat lyme. I have been to many physicians and none take the time to explain what each product does and how it will help me over come this disease. This author does and also in talking with him, he doesn't make you feel forced to do anything unlike many of the other physicians who make it seems they know what they are talking about but never really prove it. this author really knows what his talking about and is the real deal.

This book tell about the good doctors treatment methods. Explained are the difference between western medicine and modern chineese medicine which draws from modern western and ancient chineese practice. The herbs used are listed but it seems they may vary according to each patients needs. This is a scholarly treatease that is footnoted but was an easy read for this non technical reader. The book points out the unreliability of some tests but provides a work around where the patient notes the effect of the herbs on their symptoms. This is where the Doctors skill comes into play in knowing what to prescribe. If you are treating your disease yourself this book has a lot of information. Many thanks to Dr.Zhang for sharing his knowledge.

The somewhat technical book is written for the practicing herbalist and fulfills its purpose in laying out a procedure, ingredients and concentrations, and a helpful flow chart that summarizes the entire procedure. The basic information for the protocol are the chart on p 42-43 and the pill ingredients in Chapter 7. However, it assumes that the herbalist is going to use the specified pills alluded to throughout the book. While a single-source herbal supplier is a valid approach to herbalism, I would like to have seen two other considerations included:
1. Alternatives you could buy from other standardized herbal suppliers that would meet the requirements of the protocol, along with suggested equivalent dosing.
2. Directions on how to create your own extracts directly from the dried or fresh herbs, what to expect in the way of concentration and dosing from standard extraction processes and methods for consistency applicable to any modern herbal kitchen.

This book is both illuminating for its conciseness and disappointing for its single-source commercialism. My next step is to buy Buhner's book on Lyme to compare protocols and practices.

There are better Lyme Disease treatment books than Lyme Disease and Modern Chinese Medicine. This book is short and may be a good introduction to Lyme Disease treatment, especially for patients with "brain fog."

Dr Zhang apparently pioneered Artemisinin treatment for Babesia and developed higher potency Artemisinin. He provides an excellent description of how Artemisinin destroys food vacuole and cell membranes of Babesia piroplasms. Babesia may be acquiring some resistance to Artmisinin and many patients seem to require higher doses and length of treatment than Dr. Zhang recommends.

Dr. Zhang provides treatment protocols which are fairly easy to follow, considering the complexity of the Lyme spirochete. His Hepapro company also provides a one stop shopping capability for patients wanting to follow his treatment protocols. Hepapro also provides a free consultation with Dr. Zhang, after a certain length of time using his products.

Zhang also discusses using accupuncture, in combination with herbal Lyme Disease treatment.

Four patient case histories provide much needed encouragement.

The herbals recommended in this book are more expensive than herbals recommended by Buhner, and do not seem as effective. You can expect to spend around $300 monthly for Dr. Zhangs herbal Lyme Disease regimen and might not see any improvement, in three months.

This book fails to mention lumbrokinase, which has proven very effective for reducing excess clotting, caused by Lyme Disease and Babesia. This is surprising since earthworm powder, which lumbrokinase is produced from, has been used in China effectively for over one thousand years. Apparently, only Chinese HERBAL medicine and acupuncture are discussed, in this book.

The discussion of Cordyceps actions was very helpful and informative.

This book does not appear to discuss Bartonella or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, which are two common Lyme Disease coinfections.

The HH extract, recommended by Dr. Zhang causes indigestion and gastric distress in almost everyone who tries it. HH increases toxic acetaldehyde levels.

Smilax is very liver protective and Buhner also recommends it to reduce dieoff severity.

Buhner provides far more information in Healing Lyme. The Lyme Cure, by Singleton, is also a better Lyme Disease book. Ironically, the best discussion of effective Lyme Disease treatment I have seen is two paragraphs, in Curing the Incurable, by Thomas Levy, MD, JD.

Steven Sponaugle

A long time sufferer of chronic lyme and its coinfections, I find Dr. Zhang's work to be innovative yet lacking the real depth and experience I find in books by Dr. James Schaller. I would skip this and go directly to the tick infection 'master,' if you want real modern cure dosing and actual studies testing Zhang's methods. Just my opinion!

No question Dr. Zhang is brilliant and has done amazing work to forward our knowledge of treating many things, especially hepatitis, AIDS and other medical issues. He is NOT however well versed in treating or understanding lyme and co-infections. His protocols for this are not tested scientifically and do not work. he has recently put out revised products based on the research and testing done by Dr. Schaller! His products are excellent, but he is not the best and testing and treatment. Dr. Schaller can use both eastern and western medicene and his success at treatment is stellar.

This book isn't very well written but contains useful information. I would not recommend unless you have a science background. Very technical but I am glad this book was made available to lay people who want more scientific information on alternitive treatments.

LYME DISEASE AND MODERN CHINESE MEDICINE by Dr. Quingcai Zhang and Yale Zhang (Sino-Med Research Institute) is not a book for everybody . . . but if you have Lyme disease or know somebody who has, then you will definitely want to read it.

The subtitle says it all: AN ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT STRATEGY DEVELOPED BY ZHANG'S CLINIC . . . many traditional approaches to cure the disease just don't seem to be working, so Dr. Zhang has developed a procedure that involves a combination of various systems of medicine:

* Since the modernization movement of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the last 1950s, three major systems of medicine are now practiced in China: Western medicine, TCM, and integrative Chinese and Western medicine. We refer to the latter as modern Chinese medicine (MCM).

He further points out that to treat Lyme disease:

* MCM uses a TCM principle, known as fu zheng qui xie, which has been applied for centuries to treat infectious diseases. . . . Both homeopathic and allopathic, [it] is a constitutional approach that emphasizes the immune system in fighting diseases.

What I particularly liked about the above is that it doesn't involve the use of antibiotics and, as such, uses herbal formulas that have little to no toxicity. In fact, the following are the guidelines for the herbal products that are used:

* The active ingredient is identifiable.
The potency is measurable.
The therapeutic action is predictable.
The clinical outcome is repeatable.

Some of LYME DISEASE gets a bit technical . . . however, an excellent Appendix of Frequently Asked Questions does a great job in summarizing what has been written . . . and will go a long way toward helping anybody decide if this approach is one to at least consider.

This is a great book for anyone dealing with Lyme Disease and it's co-infections. It is well written and can be used by the Layman and Physician alike. If you or someone you know has Lyme Disease this is a great book. I just started on Dr. Zhang's protocol recommended in this book and I have high hopes. I know another Lyme patient who has been using this protocol for the last six months and she is having stellar success. Good luck to you, and I highly recommend this book. S.F. - Texas