Healing Lyme: Natural Healing of Lyme Borreliosis and the Coinfections Chlamydia and Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, 2nd Edition

I’m totally amazed. Growing up in a world of medicines and doctors and relying on those docs to give me a cure, I went into this approach with a hope, but without a true faith in it. So how can it be after a little more than a month I’m experiencing such a vast improvement? Plants can be a powerful medicinal despite what I had framed up in my mind. What’s more astonishing –some of these invasive weeds are helping where 20 years of doctors visits could not. I have a common story where I didn’t fit into the doc box. Their frame of education and treatment put me outside the margins of their knowledge. Something as complex as a tic bourne illness sent 80% of them for a pen to write a psychiatric prescription (though I never asked for that). The other 20% gave the appearance they’d exhaust my efforts or budget until I gave up… which I did until it nearly killed me. I was having severe heart palpitations after I ate. My face was going numb. I often assumed I was about to pass out. I struggled to walk because it was as if I had a huge weight on me. I was soooo weak. Yes, it sounds crazy, but that’s what tic bourne illness often does. Modern medicine is not equipped to treat it because pharmaceuticals have such little beneficial effect. Also, whatever the bacteria is, it goes on without detection. Technology can’t determine what is truly going on, so the patient must be imagining the problem. Such a small number of tic bourne illness is cured by modern medicine. Traditional/Folk Medicine works where the latest medical technology fails. I’ve had MRIs, blood tests beyond counting, physical after physical, visits to neurologists and specialists that were perpetually discouraging. Now I’m being helped by invasive weeds and herbs that we’ve had knowledge of their benefit for millennia. It’s quite astonishing and it should be humbling to our nation’s entire “modern”medical complex. Just a portion of the core protocol in this book has helped kick my symptoms already. I’ve only been taking 4 of the main parts of the protocol in the list and the tremendous benefit has inspired me to gather the remainder of the ingredients. When getting the plants and herbs, it’s best to grow them at home, but you’ll likely have to start off purchasing them. I went for the powders because of the quantity I’ll have to take over what could be a year or more. I’m inspired to continue and after 20 years, one year is pretty short. Some of them were a challenge to find, but about 8 hours on internet herbal sites (and Amazon) I gathered most of the powders or tinctures needed. I’m confident you’ll be inspired to continue once you’ve begun. I’ve had a few strange feelings but I’ve been told it’s the illness working against me. I’m convinced they are right. This book is a good guide through a complex issue that has yet to gain the support of the medical industry.

You will learn so much about Lyme disease from this book that I’m not sure is even available elsewhere. Before I read this book I had not considered Lyme as a possibility to explain my health issues because I thought Lyme had to mean migraines, arthritis, and Bell’s palsy. I have a book on Lyme written by an M.D. in which he states that if you don’t have certain symptoms one of which I believe was arthritis or joint pain then you most likely don’t have Lyme. Buhner dispells this myth. He actually took the time to search throughly the scientific literature on this disease which most doctors and so called experts don’t do. I am impressed by Mr. Buhners concern to help his fellow man that is demonstrated in his willingness to expend so much effort to study this subject and to put the info together in affordable books, and to share fully his herbal expertise so that any who desire can treat themselves. Most practioners with such expertise and experience do things like write a book that tells you some things without really telling you all that you need to know so that the info is not really useful and then tell you if you really want help for thousands of dollars you can make an appointment with them or someone who works for them. It is clear that Mr. Buhner genuinely wants to help as many people as possible and is not motivated by greed. He even has the protocols and much of the knowledge of the whys of the protocols for free online so that someone not being able to afford books is not an obstacle for them. If there were more people in medicine and the world like Mr. Buhner it would be a much better place. I’m very appreciate of his love for his fellow man and for his generosity expressed in his books and website. One thing I’d like to point out is that his protocols can help any stealth infections that might be behind illnesses people have. He explains that for the most part they all work in similar ways in the inflammatory cytokines or chemicals that they cause to be produced in the human body. Many of the herbs in the protocol are for shutting down their ability to do this and for normalizing immune function and making it effective again. The microbes alter immune function so as to make it ineffective and thereby to allow them to continue to live and increase in numbers. So it can be effective for a wide range of chronic stealth infection caused illnesses. I have been on his protocol for a few weeks and have seen a lot of improvements in my symptoms in that short time. I don’t have an official diagnosis of Lyme but I have had a large percentage of the symptoms he discusses in the book.

Buhner wrote this book beautifully and thoroughly with so much research and personal experience. (The bibliography is MASSIVE - I was going to count, but it's so long just take my word for it.) This is an empowering must-have for any lyme patient or practitioner. The first seven chapters are very research based and full of information about the dynamics of the disease in the global and micro ecosystems in which it inhabits. He also discusses the unfortunate reality of the failures in modern medicine is diagnosis and treatment of chronic stealth infections. I would recommend reading it (when the lyme brain fog isn't too heavy), but he does direct you to chapter 8 - the core protocol - if you wish to skip the depth and density of the research. "There is no one-size fits all treatment for lyme or any of it's coinfections" Another thing I love about this book is that he doesn't claim this is the only way to treat lyme; its a protocol with amazing results and backed by research, but he ENCOURAGES you to alter/add/delete elements as needed for your specific experience and dynamic. Remember that it was writted 10+ years ago, and that there is new research available not included in this book. Nevertheless, this protocol is fundamental, even if we get lucky and new groundbreaking benefeits from newly studied herbs are discovered. I am a recently diagnosed lyme patient, and this book helps me feel empowered and hopeful about my healing. I have heard of amazing results from this protocol, and I only hope I can have similar results. This disease is awful, misunderstood, and estranging, and I wouldn't wish it upon the worst. I truly hope that you and I can find joy and healing. My biggest goal is to someday edit this review with my success story, and I'd love to see yours here as well so we can spark hope. I am so thankful Stephen Buhner left us with these resources before he passed. The world is truly better and more hopeful for it.

" $18.41 Condition: New " is what the description said. Received a book that had obviously been read up to around page 45. The rest of the book had signs of being lightly read or skimmed. Pages were loose and there was not the usual tight new book feel. The book contents are a brilliant work and this is an excellent resource to have on hand - especially for people who have just found a tick on their body and want to know what to do - there is a very short time period where you can take stuff to prevent Lyme from settling into the body. This is a very handy reference book also with regard to which tests are recommended. 5 stars for the book. 2 stars for the seller who misrepresented the book I paid for as "new"

I think I was infected with Lyme disease in early May while trying to clear weeds from my garden. 'Think' because I never saw the tick and didn't notice the classic bull's eye rash, until late June when a small red itchy patch I'd assumed was black fly bites had expanded to an 8" long red oval on the outside and inside of my upper arm. Nor did I realize how abnormal my many mental lapses were--like trying to cash a check stub at the bank after I'd put the check in the shredder, or squeezing my car through orange cones blocking the entrance to a newly painted, empty parking lot. Nor did I know that my painful stiff neck was a symptom of Lyme. Or that by then it was too late for doxycycline to work. 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.

Stephen Buhner is a wonderful researcher. My grandfather was born in a cave, herded sheep as a young boy for months at a time, and to this day is very connected to the land. My grandmother is as well. They grow plants and herbs, and have always insisted that we heal naturally. I am more scientific and was constantly wondering how everything worked and why. I felt like though some remedies worked for more normal issues, I had more to learn, but never any guide based on research. 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.

This is a MUST GAVE book if you struggle with Lyme Disease or are a Lyme Disease Practitioner. I recommend this to ALL of my clients. It describes in detail everything about Lyme Disease and its co-infections, as well as natural protocols to follow for every infection and symptom. It is a wealth of info and invaluable! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!!

I had the prior book, and purchased this one when it came out. It is somewhat clinical but the option of what to apply, read or understand is the reader's. I have additional books of Buhner's. I work with a LLMD MD, however, Buhner gave me the ability to make the tinctures I require at a fraction of what I was paying. It's truly not complicated instructions- most of us with this condition are typically not diagnosed until Lyme's and the applicable co infections are "deeply" established, we therefore require ongoing symptom and disease management for the Long Haul. Purchasing on the retail market is very expensive and it goes on and on and on. I find I can spend roughly $100.00 to create what would cost me $900 and up to purchase - he gave me the tools. He also gave me the confidence to up my plant skills and to recognize how many plants are already available for my use at my home. Anyone newly "diagnosed" but very ill with the disease needs to know that the fix, improvement, whatever it may be is very individualized and is NOT quickly accomplished. It is critical to follow up with plant medicines when the antibiotics have done what they can, I only wish in hindsight that I had started some of the plant medicines DURING the period I took antibiotics for 5 months. When you first begin to heal, you feel worse- and if the journey is early a sufferer might not fully recognize Herxing and how to modify the suffering down to tolerable level. Buhner gives you the long winded version of what, how and why for the price of a book- what more can I ask of my healing helpers. My books are so dog eared it is a clear reminder to myself how much I gleaned from his teaching. He does not claim to know everything- but he sure contributes to your having confidence it what "works for you", whether it's in there or not. My doc leans on the Cowden protocol, I do not and yet we work well together. Anytime you have a complicated health matter, seems like there is someone on every corner happy to exploit you and your illness- Supplement market/ pharmaceuticals- doesn't matter.

Vey helpful in my long road to recovery

Almost perfect, except for the parts "read my previous edition of this book (aka buy that one too)" But probably a potential life saver

very helpful book

A real bible, definitely worth it !

I've spent spent over a year feeling ill with flu like symptoms, blockced ears, unusual visual phenonema, slight weakness on one side, a recurrent skin rash, fuzzy thinking and various other ailments. I've seen GPs, had brain MRIs, seen an ENT consultant and nobody can work out what it is apart from blocked Eustachian tubes. Several years ago I saw my GP about two marks on my leg that where unlike anything I'd had before, the GP referred me to a dermatologist, by the time I saw her the rash has gone and she told me it was probably nothing and I should get on with enjoying my life. So I have been feeling a bit desperate to understand why I am unwell? There are many web based opportunists who prey on people in this sort of predicament. I'm by no means sure that I have Lyme but it seems the closest explanation of my symptoms that I can find and I'm following the protocol. Either way it is an excellent book, well structured and well explained in a tone that is one the level with the reader.