Dr. Schumake led me to a securely locked storage room. Inside was a wide assortment of bottles and jars of mysterious looking liquids. As I gazed around in amazement, he pulled out an plain looking box about the size of two huge dictionaries. He smiled as he slowly lifted the lid. My eyes just about popped out of my head when I saw what was in the box.
Some clients say that their anti-Lyme Disease herbs makes their eyes pop out of their head – but for a different reason
Kevin exploded, “I hate taking them! They taste horrible!” when his mom confronted him about taking his anti-Lyme Disease herbs. The taste was so bad he would rather endure his aches and fatigue than to drink any more herb tea. In order to avoid the bad taste all together, some clients put their herbs in capsules to swallow them down. However, this solution doesn’t work for everyone.
Herbs in capsules are easier to drink but cause another problem
Capsules have made it much easier for clients to avoid the bad taste altogether. However, a subset of these clients began to have difficulty swallowing capsules. Dr. Shumake showed me an even better way for these people to take in their herbs.
Dr. Shumake shared his irresistible secret for getting clients to take bitter herbs and medicines
Dr. Shumake of Blue Mountain Apothecary makes medications for all kinds of clients including autistic kids that gag at swallowing capsules. What was inside the big box? The biggest slab of chocolate I’d ever seen.
His eleven pound bar of dark chocolate inspired me to find ways of masking the bitter taste of anti-Lyme herbs for my own clients. He said that mixing herbs with carob would be better for clients with fatigue who should not get caffeine. Using sugar-free, dairy-free, and caffeine-free carob has worked great for getting younger and older clients to take their anti-Lyme Disease herbs more consistently.
Here are three ways to mask the bad taste of anti-Lyme herbs
It takes approximately 2 ounces of carob to encapsulate a daily dose of herbs. Some clients have concerns about gaining weight by eating so much carob. Here are three other ways that use less calories to mask the taste of the herbs:
1) Take 2-3 vegan carob chips (dairy-free, wheat-free, sugar-free, caffeine-free) and melt them on your tongue, or
2) Put a small spoon of olive oil, coconut oil, or sesame oil on your tongue, or
3) Use a small spoon of almond butter or walnut butter to cover your tongue completely
Through using one of these methods above to mask the tongue, clients have a much easier time swallowing their herb tea.
Even clients that have difficulty swallowing now enjoy taking their herbs thanks to Dr. Shumake’s secret
Clients no longer have to struggle with swallowing a bunch of bitter herb tea or taking handfuls of herbal capsules. Thanks to Dr. Shumake’s secret eleven pound box of chocolate, clients have a much easier time taking their herbs masked by carob, different oils, or nut butters. Now, some clients actually enjoy taking their bitter anti-Lyme Disease herbs.
For people with neurological Lyme disease By Greg Lee
Have you ever done a deep cleaning before moving to a new home? As you pack up your belongings, you discover all sorts of hidden things. You also find a lot of dirt. You see this dirt underneath appliances, furniture, and deep in crevices.
You don’t want the next occupant to discover this dirt after you have left. So you want to make sure you get it all by deeply cleaning these hidden places. Deep cleaning is a similar process to preventing a relapse of Lyme disease symptoms.
How does deep cleaning help you to prevent a relapse of neurological Lyme disease symptoms? Chronic Lyme disease symptoms are believed to reoccur because the bacteria are able to hide during antibiotic treatment. Lyme bacteria are spiral shaped and they like to drill into your joints, spinal cord, and brain where they can hide from antibiotics. Once you go off medications, they come back out and create aches, pains, fatigue, and mental fog all over again. Preventing a relapse requires a deep cleaning of these bacteria out of your joints, brain, and spinal cord.
How to clean Lyme out your brain, joints, and spinal cord Antibiotics can have a hard time killing Lyme bacteria in these areas. Antibiotics have also created persistent, drug-resistant forms of Lyme disease in lab studies1. You need something else that will penetrate and clean out these places. There are a microparticle form of herbs called liposomes which can penetrate more easily into hard to reach places like the brain2, joints3, and spinal cord4.
These liposomes can carry herbs with anti-Lyme, anti-toxin, and anti-inflammatory properties to clean these hard to reach places. This combination of herbs cleans by penetrating these areas, killing the bacteria, clearing out toxins, and helping to repair damaged tissue. Surprisingly, many people with Lyme report aggravated symptoms as they undergo a deep cleaning.
Symptoms may be aggravated when you deeply clean out the Lyme bugs Anti-Lyme liposomal herbs are used to target bacteria throughout the body and in hard to reach places. As the Lyme bacteria are killed, you may actually see an increase in symptoms or even new ones. These symptoms may include: increased pain in the joints or muscles, headaches, fever, chills, decreased blood pressure, hives, or rashes.
Lyme experts believe this is due to something called a Jarisch-Herxheimer5 reaction or Herx for short. This reaction is believed to be caused by a toxic substances called endotoxins that get released when the bacteria die off. Fortunately, there are anti-toxin herbs which help to reduce a flare up of this reaction.
Anti-toxin herbs can help to clean toxins and reduce symptoms Fortunately, there are anti-toxin herbs for neutralizing these endotoxins. Examples of anti-endotoxin herbs are: scutellaria6, isatis root7, dandelion8, and viola9. So as the bacteria are killed off, these additional herbs bind to and neutralize their toxic waste products. These herbs also help to protect organs like your liver10, which filters out toxins.
Finally, there are herbs which help you to eliminate these toxins more quickly through your urine and stool. Many clients report decreased herx symptoms when they are on a combination of carrier and anti-toxin herbs. In addition to the carrier and anti-toxin herbs, healing herbs also help to reduce symptoms.
Healing herbs repair damage, reduce pain, and alleviate symptoms Specific herbs help your body to heal more quickly as the infection is cleaned out of your joints, brain, and organs. Depending upon where you experienced symptoms, specific healing herbs are used to accelerate joint healing, increase energy, and improve memory and mental concentration.
For healing joints, herbs like achyranthes11, mukul myrrh12, or coix13 may be added. For replenishing from fatigue, herbs like lycii14, licorice15, or astragalus16 may be added. For repairing the nervous system, liposomal herbs like gotu kola17, acorus18 or polygala19 may be used. With all these herbs, you have a powerful strategy for getting rid of the effects of a neurological Lyme infection.
Getting rid of the Lyme bacteria requires a deep cleaning Just like that last deep cleaning before you move out, liposomal herbs can help you to clean the bacteria out of those hard to reach tissues in joints, the brain, and the nervous system. These herbs can help to kill the bacteria, neutralize toxins, and help you to heal damaged areas. By adding the right liposomal herbs for your symptoms, you can find relief for chronic Lyme problems in as short as a few months instead of years.
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