My body hates teasel

[momoftwohugs]

Hi Lou,

My experience with Teasel has been wonderful, once I found my 'just below' herx level. I have been taking very low doses of 1 drop only, every 2 days as a general rule. Some days my body just says "no" when I self test, and by using this method I have seen great improvements. I found it very hard to believe that such a low dose would do any good at all...yet here I am a few months later and functioning at a much higher level.

There are times when my body says "no" for a week straight. This tends to coincide with the moons, once I started charting my responses. Just FYI, I have been dealing with late term Lyme, Bab's and Bart (6 years now) and CNS involved. The 'schete's set up home in my brain.

I am convinced that the heavy herxing causes damage in every system of our body, and have found (for me) that self testing and using any herbs/supp's or Rx is only beneficial when my body says "yes".

So, in a nutshell...YES. I feel that the low doses I have been taking are working quite well for me!

I hope this helps and perhaps gives a bit of perspective on how every 'body' is different and requires an individual approach.

[LadyB]

Alana, now THAT is one of the best dances with Teasel I've yet read. Allies all the way.
LadyB

[momoftwohugs]

Thank you Lady B, it is with the information from this site that I have been able to do this. Once again SO very grateful to have landed here!

[lou63629]

Hi Lady B:

Thanks for your detailed reply. There's nothing cut and dried about Lyme protocols, is there? I stopped teasel, but then worried that I wasn't doing anything to combat the bacteria. So now I've upped it to 2 drops a day - I can just barely tolerate that. It gives me slight herxing - pains that jump around, etc. But I will persevere with it and see what happens. The bladder problem I mentioned was not a local infection, per se - it was morea pattern of nerve response. Now it comes and goes; its' not so severe now that I've cut down on the teasel, so I can live with it..

The latest wrinkle may or may not be due to Lyme, maybe you can figure it out. Prior to taking anything for Lyme, I did a course of Gum Mastic, to combat H. Pylori infestation. That worked wonderfully! I must have had it throughout my whole body, because it cleared up a chronic sinus drip, sore throat, acid reflux, persistent cough, and low-grade kidney/bladder infection. All of this stuff completely cleared up! It was amazing! This past month, with the extremely hot weather, I began sleeping with an overhead fan on. Unfortunately, that gave me a runny nose, a painful tooth abscess, and the return of the lung congestion. I've just finished a course of penicillin for the tooth abscess, and will probably have to have it extracted -- but what I'm wondering about is the chest congestion. I'm pretty much back to square one with that, i.e. coughing up phlegm and very short of breath. The question I'm wondering is,is this a return of H. Pylori? (I've started on the Gum Mastic again in case it is). Or is this somethng to do with the Lyme?

I thought my immune system was in fair shape by now, despite 9 years of Lyme, but apparently that's not so. Does this indicate that spirichetes are concentrated in my lung tissue? If that's the case, should I be doing something other than taking 2 drops of teasel a day? I'm sort of stalled, not knowing what to do. Any thought you have on the issue will be appreciated.

Thanks for your help.

LOU

[LadyB]

Not having studied much on Helicobacter pylori, I just now did some reading.
http://www.smartbodyz.com/Mastic-Gum-H- ... bacter.htm
Interesting how we have yet another ~spiral~shaped bacteria all protected from our immune systems. Keeping in mind that Teasel's most remarkable attribute is how it coaxes the beasts out of hiding to where (something) can GET them, taking MORE makes little sense if taking the mere drop a day has you uncomfortable. Let's not be coaxing them out faster than you can kill them off.

In the above article (although yes, I saw plenty of 'headlines' that gum mastic KILLS h.pylori) it appears the Gum Mastic more PROTECTS from the damage it can cause, thus easing symptoms, thus having one feel the bacteria has been killed.

So here are my thoughts. (and it's not medical advice) Whatever name we call them, we have some stealth spirals setting up housekeeping here. I'd be keeping the dose of Teasel really low but constant to make sure none of them hide in the corners. I think of Slippery Elm mixed with honey as doing pretty much what the above article says that gum mastic does - protects but also REBUILDS the mucous linings in our bodies (and that's gums, throat, esophagus, stomach, intestines, colon). That is something that can just become part of your diet, either eaten from a spoon or spread on toast.

Specifically for the electric pain in your bladder, St John's wort often helps with that kind of pain, but Self-test, St J's isn't everyeone's ally.

For a broad-spectrum killing aid that as far as I know, nothing becomes resistant to, I'm back to GrapeFruitSeed (tablets or liquid). But I wouldn't add it to 4 other antibiotics without re-assessing the abx.

The whole 'blame the fan' thing may have less to do with the fan and more to do with the STRESS of such heat that you felt you NEEDED the fan. Just a thought. When you're just barely holding back marauding hoardes of beasts, ANY stress can let them break through.

Perhaps that helped some?
LadyB