06/10/2026
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WE'RE BACK!!! HOW I WOULD HANDLE LYME DISEASE, TICK BITES or OTHER SIMILAR VECTOR-BORNE ILLNESS.
by A Hand 2 Heal Health Foods
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This has worked for people in the past and could work as a preventative also.
Lyme Disease:
Lyme disease is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the USA (an illness caused by an infectious microbe that is transmitted to mammals by blood-sucking arthropods). It is the fastest growing infectious disease in this country, surpassing HIV/AIDS. CDC estimates claim that in the USA there are more than 300,000 new cases annually, and there may be as many as four million currently infected. A large percentage of these are first misdiagnosed. Some other vector-borne illnesses are: West Nile virus, eastern equine encephalitis, malaria, dengue hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, babesiosis, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Southern tick-associated rash illness, ehrlichiosis, tick-borne relapsing fever, tularemia, and other insect and arthropod related diseases (CDC, 2011).
Borrelia burgdorferi the bacteria most commonly linked with Lyme Disease, is susceptible to a number of antibiotics in vitro (an externally tested specimen- i.e. test tube), but findings are contradictory as to the usefulness of antibiotics in vivo (when used directly on the infected mammal or person). This is likely due to the nature of the bacteria to leave the bloodstream. I would personally suspect that if the bacteria were highly active, antibiotics would be likely to chase them outside the bloodstream and could thereby pose serious risk to the other soft tissue, including the brain and central nervous system.
Some studies have shown a resilience of the infection despite even long-term antibiotic therapy, although others said antibiotics promptly end infections. I believe this could be due to the virulence of the particular infection. Has the infection spread to a point of strength that allows it to get outside of the bloodstream? If so, I believe antibiotic treatment would be risky. I won’t even mention the long term risks posed by antibiotics here, but they do exist. ANTI= against; BIOTIC=life.
B. burgdorferi can continue in humans and animals for many years and may be a causative factor in Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. I have heard some crazy theories of how we should go to the hospital to have a tick removed or how we should wait until we have a way to remove it safely, so the head isn’t left behind. Some say to burn it with hot metal so it will release. However, I would personally like to tell you this: Since these bacteria are in the digestive tract of a tick, you should know that as a tick releases it essentially spits back and resultantly you receive the digestive material. Therefore, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the longer it is in the more likely you are to get it and if you burn it so it will retract, it will spit back as it retracts. PULL IT OUT! The results of follicular infection from a head left behind are much less devastating than Lyme disease or Relapsing fever.
Borrelia burgdorferi is a weakly gram positive (purple under fluoroscopy) bacteria often mistakenly labeled as gram negative. This bacterial strain and is a uniquely presenting bacterium not as susceptible to conventional treatments. Numerous survival strategies of B. burgdorferi have been suggested to explain how it can persevere in its host. Intracellular invasion is one of them and logically the first step. However, new evidence suggests that it uses the fibrinolytic system to pe*****te the blood-brain barrier and live within the central nervous system and the brain. When it hides within neuronal cells, it can avoid antibiotics and your immune system to keep itself alive.
This behavior may be an adaptation to avoid death, due to the use of antibiotics that only partly destroy it, much like what we have seen happening in Staph. They commonly use the Doxycycline protocol on dogs when infected and it may only partly treat it. Thus, comes adaptation and when a dog with Lyme gets a new tick, the cycle can start over with an adapted species with a message “hide from annihilation outside of the bloodstream”. This passes on to the next generation of ticks.
Although they say deer are the common hosts, they are not the only host. It is actually a rodent borne bacterial strain. The transmission of B. burgdorferi from the rodent’s bloodstream to another mammal occurs when a young tick (Ixodes) bites an infected rodent, ingesting the bacteria along with the blood. The bacteria then resides in the tick’s digestive tract, and when the tick bites a higher order mammal, it can pass the bacteria to the new host if it is able to spit back.
Borrelia burgdorferi is an adaptable little expert that is highly mobile, with two-membranes and a spiral-shape. It is a bacterium that lives primarily as an extracellular pathogen (that is something that lives outside of your cells and produces disease) but can invade cells also. The type of bacteria is a Spirochaete, spiral shaped. They are a swimming cell that rotates itself like a corkscrew through the tissue membranes, especially when they are gelatinous in composition. This is why there are so many symptoms that go along with infection.
In addition to a typical membrane (made of plasma) surrounding the bacteria cell wall, they have an outer lipid (fatty) bilayer membrane, also referred to as an outer membrane sheath. This protects the inner membrane from many substances that kill typical bacteria. The flagella (hair-like protrusions) of spirochaetes are similar to the flagella of rod-shaped bacteria but are located between the protoplasmic cell portion (living part-cytoplasm, nucleus, etc...) and outer membrane sheath attached to one end of the cell cylinder and extends toward the opposite end. These flagella enable spirochetes to swim faster in a high-viscosity gel-like media than in low-viscosity very liquid media. The opposite is usually true with most other bacterium.
The order of this bacteria includes several well-known human pathogens such as Leptospira (family Leptospiraceae) which creates the usually rodent borne illness Leptospirosis, a disease affecting the kidneys, liver, and central nervous system; Borrelia (of course) which has many other variants besides the aforementioned; and also, Treponema (family Spirochaetaceae) of which the Pallidum variant causes Syphilis. The research into syphilis has had substantial bearing on the understanding of Lyme disease, making it possible to advance in detection methods based on existing protocols for Syphilis. Natural cures for Syphilis may hold out hope for Lyme disease also.
I don’t wish to start any labeling based on ignorance. Lyme disease IS NOT an STD.
Ironically enough, as many doctors will admit there are very few Western Medicine treatments that have success in treating Lyme disease. One of the older treatments for Syphilis comes to mind when I investigate this and that is Yellow Dock root in an on again off again protocol for about 4 rounds.
If I had Lyme disease, this is what I would do for myself:
1) I would use Yellow Dock Root as described above.
2) I would take full dose Fulvic Acid EVERY DAY for 3 months solid. Fulvic acid is NOT folic acid.
3) I would use Therapeutic Grade Frankincense Essential Oil and Helichrysum Essential Oil internally in safe doses 1-3 drops, 1-3 times daily. I would also take Clove Bud Essential Oil or Cinnamon Leaf Essential Oil, 3 drops a day. Frankincense has high levels of sesquiterpenes that cross the blood brain barrier and are capable of taking other things with them. Clove Bud or Cinnamon leaf disassembles bacterial membranous sheaths and kills the bacteria, helichrysum helps the Frankincense repair damage caused by free-radicals and can diminish scar tissue that it caused.
4) I would take Chelated Calcium and Magnesium because of the Yellow dock which may deplete some minerals (which is why the protocol is on and off).
5) I would take a WHOLE FOOD vitamin C (NEVER ascorbic acid or calcium ascorbate) to help with the immune system.
6) I would eat well (ALL ORGANIC, NON-GMO) and boost my immune system with a *double dose* of Flora Plus.
7) And when all of that was done, I would take IGF-1 to facilitate tissue repair and energy.
I have done the above protocol short term when I was bitten by a tick and when I was bitten pretty badly by a kitten that could have been rabid (it took off). I have also done all of the above for my dogs, *except* these essential oils, which I didn't give to my dogs in this manner when they have gotten ticks.
Hopefully, this can give some new information and hope to those suffering from this.
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