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Hi, Ellen

I’m sorry about your son’s attitude. I feel blessed that mine grew up committed to alternative medicine, but I’ve known other kids who were raised on homeopathy and rebelled. Though later these same returned to it, chastened, so there’s hope for your boy.

As far as his treatment for Lyme is concerned, I’d recommend the antibiotics, specifically a course of amoxicillin for one month. The go-to antibiotic is currently doxycycline, but it wrecks many a gut. Amoxicillin, though kinder and gentler, will do the job. He may likely have co-infections with other bacteria, which seem to be more common these days.

You certainly can treat Lyme acutely (and it is preferable to antibiotic treatment), but I wouldn’t do it long distance, especially without knowing about co-infections (and most drs. don’t test for those). It’s probably safer to let him do the antibiotics, then treat with Ledum and the nosode to make sure the disease is gone.

BTW, the difficult Lyme cases I’ve been handling of late are mainly 1) patients whose guts have been destroyed by doxycycline, and/or 2) patients where Lyme has been diagnosed — but it’s not what’s really going on.

Have you ever considered gifting him some cooking lessons with a chef in his area?

Peace,
Dale

I think they’re simply throwing the antibiotic-of-the-month at it. One week of treatment is NOT enough, no matter what A/B is used. (And Lyme is caused by a spirochete, not a virus.)

You can rehabilitate the gut bacteria later with probiotics. I use a bowel nosode with severely gut-impaired patients, but that’s for folks who’ve had A/Bs for years, not weeks. That would not be appropriate for your son.

Stephen H. Buhner has a good book on what happens with Lyme and co-infections within the body. He uses herbals to treat, not homeopathy, and his approach can be as harsh as allopathic treatment. In particular I’ve encountered adverse reactions in patients treated for Babesia with herbal analogues of quinine.

Peace,
Dale

Dear Dale,

Thank you for your wisdom. Unfortunately, I only discovered Homeopathy when I had problems and I was too healthy when I was younger and had kids. Or I thought I was healthy. Big mistake. So I never used allopathy and ignorance was bliss. But ignorance has its downside.

Yes, Lymes disease is caused by a bacteria. I started reading about it, and it’s downright scary. Just worrying exhausted me. The truth is the same as anything in life, you have to deal with what is right in front of you. All kinds of projections are not going to be helpful.

But your actual experience with actual treatment is not a simple projection. It’s very valuable. Thank you for your concrete advice.

I’m going to meditate on being more motherly and more sympathetic. And work on the study part as an objective activity. Yesterday was a super moon. So it was exhausting but it least the depth of the problem is clearer.

I was reading that herbs need to be rotated. You can’t use the same herb month after month. Some herbs can be used over the long term, but not all of them.

Best,
Ellen Madono

Also, research Japanese Knotweed for the Lyme co-infections. Here is a very brief note on it.
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