Effective alternative treatments for Lyme disease and protection from tick bites

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in the US. It's transmitted to humans spending time in woodsy areas and from ticks on dogs. The Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria causes Lyme disease and arthritis, manifesting in a multitude of symptoms ranging from rheumatoid arthritis, to fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, neurological states, Bell's palsey, meningitis, heart and lung symptoms. Untreated, Lyme becomes deeply entrenched in the body, developing into an auto-immune disease.

No tests can confirm Lyme disease; rather, a diagnosis is made from the constellation of symptoms. Antibiotic therapy is the conventional treatment; often suppressing symptoms, driving them deep into the tissue, to surface years later in a wide range of troubling diseases.

This article is a is a brief overview of several of the many effective alternative medicines known to prevent and treat Lyme disease.

Prevention

If you have a dog and live in a tick-infested area, treat your yard early in the season with diatomaceous earth. Spray bushes with a mixture of natural pyrethrins, garlic and dish soap. These substances destroy ticks and lessen your chances of being bitten in your own yard.

Take colloidal silver for three to five days before spending time out doors during tick season. Colloidal silver is anti-microbial and kills a wide range of bacteria, acting like a natural antibiotic.

The homeopathic nosode made from B. burgdorferi may prevent the onset of Lyme disease after being bitten, as well as helping to cure it in its later stages.

Early exposure

If you you've been bitten by a tick, start taking colloidal silver immediately. Additionally, other natural antibiotics such as Pau d'arco tea, garlic and Echinacea extract may prevent the onset of infection.

The homeopathic remedy Ledum treats puncture wounds from venomous insect bites. It should be taken right away after being bitten together with colloidal silver.

If you've developed flu-like symptoms in the early stages of lyme disease, the homeopathic remedy Gelsemium should provide relief. It relieves fever, headache, body aches and pain, stiff neck, muscle pains, weakness, and a sensation of heaviness.

Neurological symptoms

Within weeks to months, Lyme disease may progress into neurological symptoms such as Bell's palsy, meningitis, paralysis in the limbs and poor motor coordination. Heart and breathing problems might develop. Homeopathic remedies that may relieve neurological symptoms are Causticum, Tellurium and Sepia. Additionally, the herb Cordyseps improves stamina, increases energy, reduces weakness and fatigue, and increases lung function, relieving breathing difficulties.

Various neurological conditions mimicking serious diseases such as MS, ALS, and Parkinson's may develop in later stages of Lyme disease. The Peruvian herb Samento, or Cat's claw, has been shown to be highly effective for treating neurological disorders. Samento corrects immune dysfunction, blocks the action of certain neurotoxins, and has an anti-microbial action on the B. burgdorferi spirochetes.

Lyme disease and arthritis

The most common symptoms of Lyme disease are rheumatoid arthritis and other musculoskeletal pain and arthritis disease that linger for years. Homeopathic Rhus toxicodendron is the main remedy, especially in long-standing cases where there is suppression from antibiotics. The arthritis or fibromyalgia pain is usually worse on the left side and on first movement. Painful areas get better with continued motion of the affected part. There is stiffness and soreness which is better with warm applications.

Other homeopathic remedies that may offer relief for lyme arthritis are Kalmia latifolia, Pulsatilla, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Ruta graveolens and Phosphorus.

Don't self-treat with Lyme disease and arthritis. Consult a natural healthcare practitioner or an integrative treatment center for care.

Sources for this article include:

http://cassia.org/ledum.htm

http://www.healthsalon.org/505/cure-chronic-lyme/

http://www.homeopathicmd.com/2011/04/homeopathy-and-lyme-disease/

http://www.homeopathyamerica.com/files/LymechatNationalCenter.pdf
http://www.homeopathytoday.org

http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/treating-lyme-disease-naturally/

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/lyme-disease-000102.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/ld_humandisease_symptoms.htm

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/lyme.html

http://www.lymeinfo.net/alt.html

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About the author:
JB Bardot is trained in herbal medicine and homeopathy, and has a post graduate degree in holistic nutrition. Bardot cares for both people and animals, using alternative approaches to health care and lifestyle. She writes about wellness, green living, alternative medicine, holistic nutrition, homeopathy, herbs and naturopathic medicine. READ HER OTHER ARTICLES ON NATURAL NEWS HERE: http://www.naturalnews.com/Author1686.html You can find her on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001364941208&ref=tn_tnmn or on Twitter at jbbardot23 https://twitter.com/#!/jbbardot23

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Radiation protection is offered by amino acids cysteine and glutathione

Another nice article on radiation protection from your diet:

Radiation protection is offered by amino acids cysteine and glutathione; Vitamins A, C, and E; minerals Selenium and Zinc. Russian clinical study reveals some benefit from Ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus (ES))

• Common foods such as apples, buckwheat, and sunflower seeds strongly protect and detoxify us from radiation.

•Foods such as apples, buckwheat and sunflower seeds cleanse us of radiation. Apples and sunflower seeds contain pectin which binds and removes radioactive residues from the body. Buckwheat contains glucosides which protect us from the effects of radiation. Cereal grasses and other green foods like chlorella and blue-green algae are also useful in cleansing our bodies of radiation.(1) Essential fatty acids like flax seed oil renew cells which have been burned by radiation. Soaking in a bath with sea salt and baking soda draws toxins including radiation from the body.

• Sea vegetables and miso may not be as familiar, but they are such powerful cleansers of radiation that they were used in Japan after nuclear bombs were dropped and in Russia after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown. Sea vegetables are also known as seaweed. Many varieties can be found in stores including kelp, dulse, nori and wakame. They can also be taken as a supplement which can be useful to people who can not develop a taste for sea vegetables or who feel uncomfortable cooking it. Below is a recipe for miso soup which includes the sea vegetable wakame. Wakame can be found at natural foods stores and in Asian markets.

• Miso Soup with Sea Vegetables
• 2 Tbsp dried wakame pieces(Wakame is a sea vegetable sold in natural food stores or Asian markets. If it is not in little pieces already, you can simply cut with scissors.)
• 6 cups water
• 1/2 chopped onion
• 1 chopped carrot
• 1 cup chopped kale
• 2 Tbsp chopped scallions
• 2 Tbsp miso, any variety. (Mellow white miso is sweeter; darker miso like rice or barley is more salty.)
• sea salt to taste
• Olive oil to coat pot

• To Prepare Soup
• Coat a soup pot with olive oil and saute onions, carrot and kale over medium heat for five minutes
• Add water and dried wakame
• Bring to boil and simmer fifteen minutes.
• Turn off heat and let cool to body temperature.
• Add a few tablespoons of the broth to a small bowl containing the miso. Mix the miso into the broth and then mix back into the soup.
• Top with scallions, and add sea salt to taste and serve.

Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/030664_cell_phones_radiation.html#ixzz1GQmUgay3

Note: As much as I agree with this post, it is with great concern as more contaminated water from the Fukushima reactors enter the sea, along with the fact that this blogger is located in California - I am wary of ingesting seaweed from Japan, and pretty much any sea life from fish to sea vegetables from the Pacific Ocean for now. I used to get most of my seaweed (Nori, Hijiki,, and Wakame) from Japanese supermarkets in my area, but not now. I am using up what little I have on hand and will be purchasing North Atlantic kelp in the future. This will take getting used to, since I cook with a lot of Asian foods.  I may even look into purchasing kelp from New Zealand since I heard they banned Japanese kelp from being imported there. Just something to think about readers...but the choice is always yours.  Remember fish (and other sea creatures) can swim and spawn with radiated sea creature/fish partners...as nobody knows how the currents will carry the contaminated water and its living inhabitants....please keep this in the back of your mind. 


Caution: Even though I plan on purchasing Northern kelp, please note that those rare individuals who are iodine-sensitive should avoid consumption of large Northern kelps often sold as: Kombu, Norwegian Kelp, or Icelandic Kelp; these brown algae, mostly Laminaria spp., can have up to 8000ppm iodine.  Nori tends to have the least iodine of the commonly eaten sea vegetables at 15ppm.  Although seaweeds are innately safe to eat, they can become dangerously contaminated by sewage, industrial mining, agriculture, and radioactive wastes where they grow.  Infectious microbes and parasites are usually absent from seaweeds in cold northern waters too.