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Healing Lyme: Natural Healing of Lyme Borreliosis and the Coinfections Chlamydia and Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, 2nd Edition Paperback – December 7, 2015
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Lyme disease infects a minimum of 300,000 people per year in the United States and millions more throughout the rest of the world. Symptoms run from mild lethargy to severe arthritis to heart disease to incapacitating mental dysfunction. Although tests have improved over the past decade, they are still not completely reliable, and antibiotics are only partially effective. Up to thirty-five percent of those infected will not respond to antibiotic treatment or will relapse. The spirochetes that cause Lyme are stealth pathogens―they can hide within cells or alter their form so that our immune systems cannot find them, as well as inhibit the effectiveness of antibiotics. Lyme disease is, in fact, a potent emerging epidemic disease for which technological medicine is only partially effective. The coinfections that accompany Lyme are often as, or more, incapacitating than Lyme itself. Worldwide, hundreds of millions experience infection with babesia, bartonella, ehrlichia, anaplasma, mycoplasma, chlamydia, and the spotted fever rickettsiosis.
Healing Lyme examines the leading, scientific research on Lyme infection and its tests and treatments, and outlines the most potent natural medicines that offer help, either alone or in combination with antibiotics, for preventing and healing the disease. The book has been a bestseller for over a decade, and during that time the author has had contact with over 25,000 people who have used some form of these protocols during their healing journey. This edition has been significantly updated, fully revised, and expanded to reflect the increased understandings from that extensive contact, including depth-treatment experiences with hundreds during the past decade. Healing Lyme is the primary text in print on what Lyme bacteria do in the body and how natural approaches can heal the disease. It is the first book in print covering depth understanding and treatment of chlamydial and rickettsial coinfections.
This new updated version of Healing Lyme joins the author’s other two books on the treatment of Lyme coinfections (babesia, bartonella, mycoplasma, anaplasma, and ehrlichia) and completes his exhaustive work on these stealth pathogens.
- Print length520 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRaven Press
- Publication dateDecember 7, 2015
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100970869649
- ISBN-13978-0970869647
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“One of the plant geniuses of our time.”--Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist, founder of United Plant Savers, and author of Rosemary Gladstar’s Family Herbal and Planting the Future
“Packed with information never before presented, Healing Lyme Disease Coinfections is a not-to-be-missed treasure on the topic of Lyme disease. While exploring numerous new therapeutic interventions, Buhner’s pure intent and deep wisdom unfold before the reader, while his humorous style lightens the journey. This book is a masterpiece that provides its readers with life-changing information and is poised to become the reference book for the ages.”--Scott Forsgren, editor and founder of BetterHealthGuy.com
“The first seventy-five pages are as a good a review of the scientific literature as I've seen. . . . I was impressed by his grasp of the literature. He really did his homework.”--Richard Horowitz, former president ILADS, author of Why Can’t I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease
“Anyone touched by Lyme disease—patients, their families, or healthcare practitioners—will find this insightful and thorough book to be the essential guide for Lyme disease and its treatment. A hopeful, life-altering book.”--Wendy Leffel, MD
“Our immune systems are becoming increasingly burdened, and we desperately need the complexity and synergy of plant-based medicine to help restore the microbial balance in our bodies. This valuable resource book helps you to know what to use, how, and when.”--Jeff Wulfman, MD, integrative functional family physician
“An important book that anyone involved with healthcare should read. The ideas bridge traditional herbalism, modern phytotherapy, and laboratory and clinical research. It is a major contribution to the healing of humanity's relationship with bacteria.”--David Hoffmann BSc, FNIMH, medical herbalist
“Elegant, articulate, and brilliantly researched. Given the nature of our ecological fragility, this book is a must for every practitioner’s library.”--Kathleen Maier, director, Sacred Plant Traditions
About the Author
Stephen Harrod Buhner is the award-winning, best-selling author of 24 books including The Lost Language of Plants, a BBC Environmental Book of the Year. Stephen is a polymath and autodidact, an independent scholar, a Fellow of Schumacher College, and the senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian Studies. He has taught and written extensively the past four decades on the ecology of Gaian planetary systems, the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria, viral pandemics, the dangers of pharmaceuticals in the environment, as well as producing a number of leading-edge clinical texts on the use of plant medicines in the treatment of resistant infections and chronic disease. Stephen also worked for many years as psychotherapist, studying with such luminaries as Elizabeth Kubler Ross and a number of the country’s preeminent transactional analysis therapists. He is considered one of the preeminent medical herbalists in the United States. Stephen lives in Silver City, NM. You can read more about him at stephenharrodbuhner.com.
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- Publisher : Raven Press; 2nd ed. edition (December 7, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 520 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0970869649
- ISBN-13 : 978-0970869647
- Item Weight : 1.55 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #28,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #18 in Viral Diseases (Books)
- #25 in Communicable Diseases (Books)
- #69 in Herbal Remedies (Books)
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My doctor prescribed doxycycline for 10 days, and I was sent to the ER due to nerve involvement. The ER doc sent me home because I looked fit and my labs showed a healthy woman. But after 2 weeks I felt worse than before, sleeping 10 hours a night and having extreme fatigue in the day. Another doctor prescribed a 2 week course of doxy. One week later I had blinding migraines and the room suddenly started spinning around. I stopped the drug. That doctor then set me up with a Lyme disease expert, but the appointment was over a month away. And when I finally saw the 'expert' he pooh-poohed the idea there even was such a thing as Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome. He offered me another drug, cefuroxime, but I declined. I'd read a 2020 paper from Johns Hopkins researchers, "Evaluation of Natural and Botanical Medicines for Activity Against Growing and Non-growing Forms of B. burgdorferi". They tested it and doxycycline against a number of herbs in vitro. The antibiotics worked at first to treat the disease, but after 21 days they failed to eradicate B Burgdorferi (Lyme) in its second, stationary phase (often called round body or encapsulated phase). However, two of the herbs, an African anti-malarial and Polygonum cuspidatum, eliminated both phases.
Stephen Harrod Buhner to the rescue! I ordered his book right after my Lyme diagnosis. It was a struggle to get through much of it, because it's detailed and neuroborreliosis impaired my brain cells. Yet I persisted because the longer I waited, the worse I'd feel. I had read the sad stories of many famous people like actor Kris Kristofferson, author Amy Tan, model Bella Hadid and singer Shania Twain--all who had been left untreated for years and whose symptoms were worse than mine.
Buhner understands the disease much better than any of the four doctors I saw, and his information is helping rid my body of PTLDS (which he explains in detail and why antibiotics often fail (pp. 68-79). He's helped restore some of my lost brain function. I take the botanicals he recommends religiously. (Read Chapters 8 and 15 carefully!) I'm the Energizer Bunny after my daily drink of his Chronic Fatigue Formula (p. 239). Perhaps the greatest thing for me to know is that there is scientific evidence that Buhner's research is spot on. What is one of the most important herbs in his protocol? Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum)! But that alone won't heal neuroborreliosis, restore lost cartilage or return pep to your step. To heal you need to read this book. It's become my medical bible.
By Garden Gal on September 8, 2022
My doctor prescribed doxycycline for 10 days, and I was sent to the ER due to nerve involvement. The ER doc sent me home because I looked fit and my labs showed a healthy woman. But after 2 weeks I felt worse than before, sleeping 10 hours a night and having extreme fatigue in the day. Another doctor prescribed a 2 week course of doxy. One week later I had blinding migraines and the room suddenly started spinning around. I stopped the drug. That doctor then set me up with a Lyme disease expert, but the appointment was over a month away. And when I finally saw the 'expert' he pooh-poohed the idea there even was such a thing as Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome. He offered me another drug, cefuroxime, but I declined. I'd read a 2020 paper from Johns Hopkins researchers, "Evaluation of Natural and Botanical Medicines for Activity Against Growing and Non-growing Forms of B. burgdorferi". They tested it and doxycycline against a number of herbs in vitro. The antibiotics worked at first to treat the disease, but after 21 days they failed to eradicate B Burgdorferi (Lyme) in its second, stationary phase (often called round body or encapsulated phase). However, two of the herbs, an African anti-malarial and Polygonum cuspidatum, eliminated both phases.
Stephen Harrod Buhner to the rescue! I ordered his book right after my Lyme diagnosis. It was a struggle to get through much of it, because it's detailed and neuroborreliosis impaired my brain cells. Yet I persisted because the longer I waited, the worse I'd feel. I had read the sad stories of many famous people like actor Kris Kristofferson, author Amy Tan, model Bella Hadid and singer Shania Twain--all who had been left untreated for years and whose symptoms were worse than mine.
Buhner understands the disease much better than any of the four doctors I saw, and his information is helping rid my body of PTLDS (which he explains in detail and why antibiotics often fail (pp. 68-79). He's helped restore some of my lost brain function. I take the botanicals he recommends religiously. (Read Chapters 8 and 15 carefully!) I'm the Energizer Bunny after my daily drink of his Chronic Fatigue Formula (p. 239). Perhaps the greatest thing for me to know is that there is scientific evidence that Buhner's research is spot on. What is one of the most important herbs in his protocol? Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum)! But that alone won't heal neuroborreliosis, restore lost cartilage or return pep to your step. To heal you need to read this book. It's become my medical bible.
I bought this book, only available hard copy, and I have had nothing but joy reading it. Lyme and other similar infections are wreaking unseen damage on our bodies. If you have Lyme or suspsect Lyme I encourage you to read this book and give his protocol a chance. More importantly, I encourage you to read all his books on plant anti-viral and antibiotics. My personal testimony follows.
When the pandemic began I started I searched for natural anti-viral books to see if I could create a protocol to prevent and heal from an infection. I found Stephen Buhner's work on Anti-Viral Plants that heal. It had been published pre-COVID 19, and when I found his section on Coronavirus, well... I was excited. I had already suffered a suspected, almost certain, COVID infection, but when I told doctor's that I had tingling and numbness, with memory recall issues- no one believed it was related. I told my family and doctors that I felt like I had a mini-stroke, and yet no one believed me. This was early February. After his illness where he could not breathe, my husband had a cough that would not subside and doctor's blamed it on allergies. During this time there was such little information on COVID-19. So, out of extreme caution I started us all on a loose version of his protocol- and we started to get marginally better. I stopped his protocol after only a month of barely on it. I was not in a place to do anything full throttle, let alone be my own healer, but recently when my grandfather got infected I went into action and began taking his protocol seriously. The moment I did his protocol on full blast- well, my symptoms have all gone and I have more energy and joy than ever before. After only two weeks on it, my husband's cough is almost gone. I stopped the protocol, but my husband has asked to go back on it. Stephen Buhner has a personal website and has published updates on his COVID-19 protocol for free... I have moved onto reading Healing Lyme and have found a wealth of important information and research here as well. I truly believe that all doctor's should be reading Stephen Buhner's work. I have three degrees, (BA, M.Ed., JD), and I am extremely cautious about endorsing or supporting unverified treatments. Stephen Buhner has done the research and he has used the protocols on patients. The most difficult part of his protocols is accumulating all the herbs and tinctures, which can be pricey when you want to do the full-blast treatment. Nonetheless, looking back, it has been more than worth it. Something I have also been doing that has worked very well for me is liver cleanses. I encourage anyone in tandem with Buhner's protocols, to do liver cleanses once a month. Thank you Stephen Buhner for all your work.
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I'm living in what you would call an endemic area of borreliosis. I have spent large part of my life in local forests, and tick bites have been a regular occurrence, several each summer. So probably I have been infected with borrelia for 10-20 years.
Long story short - over time several symptoms developed (joint pain, flu-like symptoms, low energy, brain fog and other slight neurological disorders, nerve tingling and pain), antibiotic treatments did not help in my case, and the local doctors were of no real help. And my path of self-healing quite soon led to this book. Buhner's protocol completely resolved my symptoms in a month. I have not felt so good and full of energy in years! I have still half a year to go with the protocol, but hopefully my Lyme will be healed completely. THANK YOU, Stephen Harrod Buhner!
I highly recommend this wonderful work for anyone suffering from chronic disease caused by an elusive infection.







