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

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.

Amazing information and the protocol reduced some of my most harmful issues.

This is an excellent book with loads of very specific and helpful information for all those who suffer from borreliosis and anybody interested in how we can use the power of plants to heal ourselves.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!

Very helpful for understanding these challenging illnesses

This updated edition is an absolute must-read for anyone struggling with Lyme Disease. Stephen Buhner is one of the world's experts in this field, having worked with Lyme sufferers and herbal medicines since 1986. The book is clearly written, easily accessible both to patients who want to treat themselves and, on a deeper level, to medical professionals who need to understand the evidence behind the herbs that their patients want to take, in this difficult-to-treat area of medicine. This edition comes out 10 years after his first publication. It covers Lyme itself, the treatment options, and has been expanded to include all the borrelial infections, and the coinfections / complicating factors of chlamydia, rickettsiae, morgellons, autism, alzheimers, etc.

I bought this after having Lyme disease for over 10 years. The fatigue, headaches, brain fog, speech and memory problems and severe headaches were awful. I then developed multiple chemical sensitivity. Even though I had the bulls eye rash doctors didn't want to see it and blamed all my symptoms on my age and the menopause. I started the main protocol in August adding the lions mnane for the MCS. I did have the herxeimer reaction which lasted a few weeks, then two flits of flu like symptoms in the following month, which may also be part if the herxing. The brain fog lifted after about 6 weeks if starting. It's now been 3 months since starting the protocol and the fatigue is so much better. I really can't believe the difference. My doctor had told me after having Lyme all these years there was no treatment. Some of the tinctures are difficult to find in the UK but I managed to find some in the EU. You have to tweak things to suit your own symptoms but I can't praise this book enough. I feel I'm getting my life back after all these years. The MCS is still giving me problems but I recover from the reaction much faster.

I can't believe I didn't write this review sooner. Brilliant information on his own protocol as well as herbs in other protocols. Has a section which addresses specific symptoms with herb, supplement and medicine suggestions to help, and when I'm struggling I often wonder why I didn't reach for the book sooner.

I have been self treating for a neurological infection caused by Chlamydia Pneumoniae for 3 years, which gave rise to a particularly virulent form of Multiple Sclerosis. I have been using conventional antibiotics (Doxycyclene, Azithromycin and Tinidazole) successfully, but have been disabled by my immune system reacting to the toxins released (Herx reaction). I bought Stephen's book to find ways of healing beyond antibiotics as I had seen reference to his work on self help sites for Lyme sufferers. Fortunately there are two very full chapters on Chlamydia Pneumoniae. From this I understand how the bacteria causes chronic inflammation, tissue damage, disarming of the immune system, and what I can do about it. I have also found some herbal tinctures that will stop the inflammatory reaction so that I can go full steam ahead towards eliminating this organism from my system permanently.I highly recommend this wonderful work for anyone suffering from chronic disease caused by an elusive infection.