Lyme Disease.... now there's a fascinating topic. I'd love it if you could share more about your experiences with it... what did you do for it, how have you fared subsequently, etc.

And yes, you're right about that... both weren't diagnosed with that, however Lyme's is also nothing not many doctors know about.

My interest in Lyme's was always courtesy of a CM Herbalist scholar named Heiner Fruehof, who has been doing a lot of work with it over in the US. He's researched a lot of old Chinese texts concerning Gu-zheng, which is described in detail in the Yellow Emperor's Classic. So even though this condition appears to be referring to gut parasites, the treatment formulas for it appear to work well on Lyme Disease patients!!!!

I got really interested in Gu-syndrome because I was doing a lot of work with people with various gut/digestive-related disorders, and nothing was working until we started approaching it as this 'parasitic' invasion. Started to look into what Naturopaths and nutritionists were doing in this field, and started to see some parallels, so I began to adapt the TCM stuff with known 'western' herbal interventions.... and voila! all of a sudden we had success. We then started getting patients to get stool sample testing, and sure enough: parasite invasion. Then we started to look at people coming in complaining of 'arthritic' conditions but were not getting the Arthritis diagnosis.... and sure enough stool samples showed the usual suspects (mostly Blastocystis hominis, sometimes Dientamoeba fragilis). I put together a tincture, and it was awesome!!! Killing the parasites!!

So yeah..... totally hear you on the Lyme/ arthritis connection!!