Making Your Own Ghee Is Easy To Do & Healthy For You

Store bought ghee is often contaminated with mold and fungus. 


Mold growing on food is not always visible. To learn more about mold on food here are two links.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/factsheets/molds_on_food/index.asp

http://www.healthtree.com/articles/allergies/types/mold/

I finally learned how to make ghee on Christmas Eve.

Ghee is often used in East Indian cooking. Ghee is suppose to be healthier for you than butter. Ghee is clarified butter that has been cooked longer to remove all the moisture. The milk solids are browned (caramelized) in the fat and then strained out and removed. This gives ghee a delicious rich nutty taste. Ghee is superior to butter because it does not contain the impurities butter contains which are the saturated fat & milk solids. Ghee is said to contain phenolic antioxidants, which bolster the immune system. Ghee has a higher smoke point than butter. That is a big advantage when cooking with ghee.

Ghee is an important part of Ayurvedic Medicine. It is said to aid digestion, memory loss and inflammation. 

I have watched videos on youtube before of people making ghee in a huge pots on their stove and it always appeared to be difficult to make your own. One of my friends told me it is also messy to make so I always bought mine even if my favorite kind of ghee was rather expensive. A 32 ounce jar is $39.50.

My health practitioner called me recently. She is incredibly intuitive and very often psychic. She told me my cholesterol was high. I was a bit shocked and then I realized I was leaning on a giant jar of ghee I had bought when she told me that. We both laughed and she said it was the jar of ghee. I don’t think she knew what ghee is before because another time when I mentioned ghee she did not know what it was. She then said. “Do not eat anymore from that jar of ghee it is full of mold and fungi.”

That statement did not make me happy. I am trying to follow a candida diet so eating anything that contained more mold or fungus was the opposite of what I wanted to achieve. Most people with Lyme disease have candida even if they have not taken antibiotics as part of their treatment. I took antibiotics for probably about two years. One of my idiot doctors had prescribed some Cholestyramine for me to help with mold exposure. I took the CSM for days before I noticed it contained fructose. Fructose feeds candida fungus and mold and it obviously was feeding my candida because my skin became itchy since had I started taking it. That was a huge mistake!

My friend told me a few days after my health practitioner called that store bought ghee can often be contaminated with mold. I asked her where she heard that and she replied: “I read it in the Gut And Psychology Syndrome book and in The GAPS Guide....it's also emphasized on the GAPS website I believe.”

After two messages that store bought ghee might contain mold I knew it was time to learn to make my own ghee using organic butter. I wondered if I could. I love ghee and make dal which is East Indian spit mung bean soup often. The recipe I use requires ghee. I tried making dal with coconut oil and another time with olive oil and it just did not have the same wonderful flavor as it does when I include ghee.

Ghee is a healthy fat. Dr. Klinghardt recommends ghee as part of his HPU/KPU kyptopyrroluria protocol.  If you would like to learn more about HPU/KPU and how it can affect people with Lyme disease or Autism go to this link. This video is lengthy yet fascinating.

http://planetthrive.com/2010/04/hpukpu-protocol-for-lyme-and-autism/

Dr. Klinghardt recommends ghee because it contains omega-6 oils.

http://www.forresthealth.com/kpu-test.html

Dr. Mercola recommends eating extra ghee for constipation. 

Here is a recipe my friend shared with me for making ghee in the oven. This recipe was super easy and to me seemed much easier than making ghee on the stovetop not that I have made it on a stovetop yet.

http://tinyurl.com/27tv44a

After the butter was done cooking in the oven I strained it through cheese cloth with the use of a wire strainer. Next time I would let the butter cool first. You can find many more ghee recipes online and watch videos on how to make it on youtube.


Some tips on making ghee written by an East Indian woman. They are discussing ghee made on a stove:

“Ghee, of course, has to be made right. When the moisture is fully evaporated from the butter, you are left with butter fat. The result is liquid gold, emitting a nutty aroma. This is strained, removing the toasty solids that settle on the bottom of the pan. These solids are flavorful and edible, especially with rice. The filtered fliud is Ghee. Just store it in a clean, dry stainless steel/glass/ceramic container with a fitting lid. The ghee solidifies in the cold and can be scooped. In the summer it stays fluid. Just remember to use clean, dry utensils while spooning ghee out.

Ghee will become solid at room temperature and is best stored in a glass jar. Do not pour your ghee out of the saucepan until it has cooled to a warm temperature that is safe to touch. When we make ghee, we usually make a large quantity by using 3-5 lbs of butter. The shelf-life of ghee is 6 months to many years. If your ghee would become moldy in the next few months, then the water and milk-fat were not fully removed and the ghee should be discarded.”

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080206151521AAmlqTd

To sum up this blog on ghee because I can tell from the comments I have received on facebook about it people are not really reading the whole thing. Store bought ghee is often CONTAMINATED with MOLD & FUNGUS. It is easy to make your own ghee in the OVEN. A link to an easy recipe for making it in the oven is included. 

Just Don't Eat The Plums On Plum Island ~ Lies More Lies & More Denial From the Chicago Tribune

Recently there was a disturbing article written in the Chicago Tribune negating persistent Lyme disease. If you have nothing else to read while in the loo or are clean out of TP you might want to print out a copy of the article. 

Here is a link to the article written by dubious reporters Trine Tsouderos and Patricia Callahan.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-chronic-lyme-disease-20101207,0,5671843.story?page=1


They need to stick to reporting about subjects they are familiar with like cupcakes, cakewalks, bake offs, Oprah and celebrity love affairs. Topics they might actually be able to lie about with out appearing to be so transparent. 


The facts in their article about Lyme disease are far from the truth. I believe they are meant to be misleading and are continued myths about Lyme disease generated by the IDSA. The IDSA is the same organization that is suppose to care about the public's health not harm it further with misinformation.  


The ghost of Betty Crocker might appreciate the Chicago Tribune article but anyone who has suffered with persistent Lyme disease in a cold world where medical insurance claims are turned down daily and unfairly I doubt would. Most people dealing with persistent Lyme disease have spent a majority of their savings for various medical treatments while trying to obtain health. Persistent Lyme disease is often not recognized by doctors or our society. I often hear the comment "But you look well". Rarely does anyone in my local community ask me how I am doing in regards to my disease. I am given no support of any kind including emotional support locally. Healthy friends just don't understand what I am going through. It is not like some other well known disease that they understand more about. 


Lyme disease and the co-infections that often come with the disease are very difficult to diagnose due to the purposely misleading guidelines  written for diagnosing by a corrupt IDSA and the CDC. The IDSA recommends unreliable testing. I know because it took thousands of other patients and myself years to get correctly diagnosed while suffering with life altering horrific symptoms in the mean time. 


I experienced intense neurological symptoms, panic attacks, nonstop anxiety, and insomnia just to name a few of my symptoms. I often had agoraphobia and was afraid to leave my home. I had no idea what was causing me to feel like I was losing my mind. I often felt like I could not breathe. If I had known borrelia spirochetes were causing my symptoms it would have been a huge relief from the unknown. I had doctors blame me for having anxiety. Try living with the shame that comes from feeling you are going crazy. You feel like you are mentally ill when in reality you are not. You just have spirochetes wrecking havoc in your body and in your brain. You can't do anything about it because you don't know what is causing the horrific symptoms. If only I had been diagnosed years earlier it would have saved me years of suicidal thoughts, shame, humiliation, and mistreatment by family members especially my sister who relished in the fact that I was not doing well because it made her feel better about herself. She took delight in telling me I was crazy. The whole time my sister's boyfriend was probably also suffering with Lyme disease after his MD refused to test him when he went to his office while presenting with a bulls eye rash. He suffered from deep depression along with suicidal thoughts. After he and my heartless sister were married he died at age 53 of a brain tumor. According to Dr. Klinghardt Lyme disease can often mimic a brain tumor. 


The misinformation Trine and Callahan included in their article will make it even harder for other patients to get correctly diagnosed if any of their lies are believed by readers. Here is a link to just some of the reasons why it is a hard disease to diagnose.  


http://onlinenewswebsite.com/medical/lyme-disease-the-facts-revealed/10777/


Sadly thousands of other people world wide are walking around improperly diagnosed and not getting their answers because many countries use our CDC guidelines for diagnosing. 


Here is H's story about the shocking road she had to take in order to get diagnosed. No one should have to spend time in a mental hospital instead of being properly diagnosed. We need to bring this disease out of the dark ages before this happens to anyone else. 

http://iamnotlymedisease.blogspot.com/2010/12/heathers-lyme-disease-is-not-idsa-lyme_6182.html


Regarding the purposely biased reporters Patricia Callahan and Trine Tsouderos who wrote the latest delusional piece for Chicago Tribune's article on Chronic Lyme Disease all I can say is who is paying them to weave such purposely misleading information the IDSA, the CDC, our military, or government, Big Pharma, insurance companies that don’t want to pay out for long term healthcare or corrupt politicians or all of the above? 


According to Dr. Stephen C. L'Hommedieu “Trine's sister, Danielle, has co-authored several studies with the FDA's Robert Ball”

For starters here is a link to Trine Tsoudero’s bio which is worth a laugh and read where she proclaims:

“I have covered Hurricane Fran, Tennessee Walking Horses, Oprah, Jennifer Lopez's (now defunct) relationship with Ben Affleck, cupcakes, freak bikers and the honeymoon suite at the Ritz.”:

http://bio.tribune.com/trinetsouderos

Trine Tsouderos  appears to have reality issues not only with Lyme Disease and Autism but XMRV virus as well and has spewed her lies and negative spin on all subjects in numerous articles and tweets.

I think more than one person out there in cyberspace is on to the disinformation they have attempted to brainwash the public with.

“Relevant questions I pondered about Trine Tsouderos were: How did she escalate from food and restaurant columnist magnifique to crack Medical and Science reporter; and how did she suddenly become an authority on OSR#1, chelation, autism and vaccines? Could it be she operates in collaboration with undisclosed biased personal connections with an agenda? Investigative research posted on the Age of Autism website by “beyond disgusted” provides some insight.”

You can read more about Dr. Stephen C. L'Hommedieu opinion on Trine Tsouderos at this link. 

http://www.newswithviews.com/L'Hommedieu/stephen100.htm

The article Chicago Tribune article is full of misinformation. Here is one of the article's most blatant lies:

“Many of these ideas are central to the chronic Lyme movement, which has gained such momentum that support groups have popped up in just about every state, even though infected ticks live mostly in Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Northeast.”

I guess the ticks that infected me with Lyme disease and co-infections in California never took the time to read the Tribune article yet nor the ticks that have bitten the rest of the patients infected with Lyme disease in California and my small town. The pharmacist in my town asked me to start a Lyme disease support group here because she saw the need. I wonder why if Lyme disease is only found in “Minnesota Wisconsin and the Northeast”?

One needs to ask themself if Lyme disease is so rare, hard to catch and easy to cure as the “Medical” *snicker* reporters from the Chicago Tribune would have us believe then why all the tweets and articles made to discredit persistent Lyme disease?


Just one among many reasons why the media is trying to spoon feed us lies about Lyme disease. 


"A document on the website of Colorado State University revealed that Lyme was being studied in a top-security BSL-3 lab there. (4) Biosafety Level 3 is used for some of the most dangerous pathogens known, which additionally pose a major biowarfare hazard because of transmission by the airborne route. It is only one step down from BSL-4, the highest level of containment, reserved for those agents for which there is no known vaccine or treatment."


You can read more about the fact that Lyme Disease is a bioweapon at this link.

http://www.elenacook.org/lymebw_accidental_release_info.html


Just don't eat the bogus cupcakes or plums from Plum Island. 

If You Have Lyme Disease There is a High Probability You Have Mold Issues

Dr. Klinghardt believes environmental mold toxins can often be part of the health puzzle when dealing with both Lyme disease and autism.

Have you tested your home for mold yet? You can have mold spores that are making you ill or adding to your dis-ease state without seeing any signs of water damage or without ever having experienced any water damage.

The air we breathe indoors often contains harmful mold spores. Dr. Klinghardt says even new homes contain mold by the time they are finished being built because new homes are constructed like a cardboard box wrapped in plastic.

I was told that mold collects in the walls in a building that contain the most geo stress. Geographic stress can happen naturally. Some of the causes are underground running water, fault lines and certain mineral concentrations. Geo stress is often said to also be caused by electro-magnetic fields from computers, wiring and appliances. You can read more about geo stress at this link. http://thegeomancer.netfirms.com/geopathicstress.htm

My practitioner had me make mold samples on Home Depot mold testing plates which I sent to her along with 4 photos of the different walls of the outside of my home. She used the sample plates and photos to treat the mold in my apartment using remote Rife frequencies. I still need to buy some new testing plates to make sure the mold is gone and has not returned.

It sounds strange but we treated the geo stress in my home by putting aluminum foil down on the floor in various locations for several weeks before treating my apartment for mold.

Mold can cause a lot of symptoms that can be very similar to Lyme disease. Here is a rather complete list. You can find other lists online.

http://moldrecovery.blogspot.com/p/symptoms-of-biotoxin-illness.html

You do not have to have all these symptoms to have mold issues.

Dr. Klinghart recommends diffusing propolis. You can purchase a propolis diffuser at this link Bee Healthy Farms. http://www.beehealthyfarms.com/

You might also want to pick up a diffuser for your car because 50% of cars are said to contain mold also.

My healthcare practitioner recommends using a Lightening Air Plus as an air purifier. Your MD or ND might prefer another one so ask. I like the Lightening Air Plus so when I leave home even for a couple of hours I can blast my home with ozone.

Most homes are going to take more than a diffuser and a good air purifier to make them livable if your have a bad mold issue in your home.

You can find a lot of information on mold by just googling the topic. I did try to read a copy of Mold Warriors by Richie Shoemaker but honestly became bored with it so I gave the book to a friend. The book seemed to repeat itself and of course the subject matter is rather dry.

I have heard from more than one person that if you hire a mold inspector they may not really be that good at detecting mold. Some are of course better than others.

There are different ways of testing your body and home for mold. If you do have Lyme disease or any persistent disease I urge you to test for mold. I have told more than one person I thought they had mold issues and months later when their practitioner finally has them test for it they realize that they do have a mold issue.

If you have been exposed to mold in the past and or present there are different ways you can treat yourself for mold. Some of the ways are with the use of Grapefruit Seed Extract, Peach Tree Extract or Cholestyramine. Personally I find Cholestyramine a bit to harsh. My Tibetan MD warned me against using it. I wish I had listened to him. In Tibetan Medicine they believe in nurturing the bile not dumping it. My Tibetan MD warned me I would be cold for months after using CSM and he was correct. I don’t know if it really helped my mold issues or not. I do know that my MD wrote me an Rx for CSM which contained  sucrose which was truly moronic. Had I checked and known it contained sucrose at the time I would have refused it. The sucrose it contained caused my candida count to shoot up and actually made me feel sicker in the long run and was counter productive. You can find CSM that does not contain sucrose. Currently I am taking GSE capsules to help with past mold exposure. At some point I will probably try taking Peach Tree Extract.

Many people including myself go into denial over mold – it is a difficult subject to deal with and hard to wrap your mind around the fact your home, school or car could be making you ill.

Links to further reading on the subject of Lyme disease and mold. The first link contains helpful testing information on how to test your body for mold exposure.

http://biotoxin.info/docs/GordonMD_ILADS_Biotoxins_RS_9_5_08.pdf

http://www.biotoxin.info/biotoxinsources

http://betterhealthguy.com/joomla/topics/mold

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My Chanca Piedra Babesia Update

I recently found this link about Chanca Piedra. It mentions it might be a promising herb to take for Lyme disease.

http://www.herballegacy.com/Thomas_Medicinal.html

"Researchers have suggested that another promising area for future study would be the use of Chanca Piedra in treatment of Lyme’s Disease. Since syphilis is caused by a spirochete and Chanca Piedra has traditionally been used for this illness, it would be a good study for the epidemic of Lyme’s Disease, which we are experiencing the northeastern United States, since Lyme’s is also caused by a spirochete. Some herbalists have used Chanca Piedra traditionally for gonorrhea and syphilis."

An update about my Babesia ~ Nov. 21, 2010. I wanted to add my health practitioner tested me more than once in the past 6 months for Babesia and she said it had cleared. Maybe that meant it was just hiding out in remission? I need to clarify if she tested me with the use of my DNA or just through energy testing. I suspect it was with the use of my DNA. Babesia tested that it was gone twice and then recently after a bout with the H1N1 flu which helped increase my load of Wild Nile Virus I tested positive again for Babesia. I also had stopped taking Chanca Piedra because I had not been muscle testing to take it anymore. I now want to start taking it again. I have switched to Raintree's Chanca Piedra capsules. 

You can find my original blog about taking Chanca Piedra for Babesia here:

http://lettherebeelight.blogspot.com/2010/06/slaying-babesia-beast-with-chanca.html

Using Reflexology & Massage to Assist in Healing

For a long time I have been wanting to write about different free or low cost things you can do at home to assist yourself in healing. Some of the suggestions I am going to make are very easy to do and only require a little bit of time, very little effort and the willingness to do them. Some of my recommendations feel so good while doing them they have become beneficial habits and routines. I am hoping some of my ideas will become enjoyable healing daily practices for you as well.

I think Lyme Literate MDs & NDs certainly have their place in helping one recover yet there are many things you can do at home to speed your own healing. From time to time I hope to give you some suggestions on just how one might go about making improvements on your own.

One beneficial practice I enjoy which feels wonderful while I am doing it as well as afterwards is using a small nubby looking hand reflexology massage ball on my hands and feet. The goal of reflexology and hand or foot massage is too stimulate one’s organs back into optimal health.

There are many free reflexology charts you can google so you can find out where different organs correlate to reflexology points or areas on your hands and feet. The charts are helpful when looking up sore points or when trying to stimulate different organs back into health.

Here is an excellent site for free interactive hand and foot charts.

http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/features/reflexology/extract.html

I usually spend 5 minutes rolling each foot over the nubby ball while sitting down. I place the ball on top of a small carpet and then roll my entire foot over the ball. It is more comfortable to keep my socks on while doing this.

You can give yourself a treatment while reading watching television or talking on the phone or to family. It feels fantastic and opens up the foot charkas so you can allow in more earth energy. When I am done with the nubby ball on each foot I then roll each foot over a wooden foot roller for about two additional minutes on each foot.

I then treat my hands for five minutes by rolling the ball between both hands/palms & fingers to give my hands a healing. All the organs of the body have reflexology points in your hands and feet so when you spend time using the ball you are stimulating and assisting all your organs into optimal health.

Five minutes may be too long for you to spend at first and overly stimulating so use your intuition and start off slowly.

I bought my nubby ball years ago at the health food store. You can purchase a similar ball online. You can find one for as little as $4.

The foot rollers can be found online as well.

If you would like to learn more about reflexology there are many books on the subject or articles you can find online. Mildred Carter has written easy to read books on both hand and foot reflexology. Her books and many reflexology tools such as foot rollers and nubby balls can also be found on her website.

Mildred Carter’s website.

http://www.mcreflexology.com/

Massaging your own hands and feet can feel very healing and delicious too or getting a spouse or friend to massage them can feel even better. I like to use olive oil or coconut oil with a few drops of lavender oil added to it for massaging hands or feet.

You can google many health issues along with the word reflexology and come up with some helpful instructions on what points or areas to treat. You can use reflexology for insomnia, colds, thyroid, more energy & many other issues.

Love The One You're With

Meaning you!

I just read the following statement yesterday online:

"Once you start to gravitate towards people who give you energy, you will no longer be susceptible to giving to those who "drain you"... Givers need to learn how to Take...and give to YOURSELF. Let me remind you how much you deserve to be loved Unconditionally!"

This quote was written by Chinhee Park her website is

http://www.twin-psychics.com/

Chinhee also has a facebook group with her sister Sunhee Park. Chinhee and Sunhee Park are Korean identical twins and are both psychics.

After reading that statement I had a light bulb moment. What I really need to do in order to get well is to stop being an out of control healer and giver and give more to myself and stop giving all my energy away. The shoemakers daughter does not need to prance around in bare feet any longer!!! I think as a child I thought trying to please everyone was the way to be loved more by my family or more popular with my friends and don't even get me started about how I still give my power away when I meet new people at times. I do not need to be a people pleaser any longer. It is a old boring worn out habit. I wonder how many other people with persistent dis-ease are out of control givers and healers?

1) Being an over giver does not work. In reality people you over give to can start to resent you and you can be taking their lessons away from them or worse yet they just use you and you turn into a shag carpet.

2) Balance is key in life. I would much rather learn to love myself more and next time I am in a romantic relationship hopefully manifest a better balance of give and take. The last situation I was in was totally lacking in romance and balance in the give and take department and it did not take long to start resenting the imbalance and the sponge and myself for being with someone who had very little desire to give if any. I sadly don't think they had a clue how to give to another person nor the desire to do so which I took personally. The situation was not healing for me but it certainly was full of lessons.

Self care and self love is so important for anyone with a persistent disease. The psychics I studied with use to refer to it as "Body being communication". What they were talking about was asking your body what it needs and not just once in awhile. Does it want more sleep for example or more fun, or more exercise, or perhaps something special or healthy to eat, or even more sex, or a trip out in nature or a good comedy to make you laugh? Amusement can be so healing at times.

Opening up the doors to better communication with your body has got to be healing so it is one of my new goals. I like most of us have some habits I want to break that do not serve my health or body.

I think I will give my body a badly needed break right now from the computer and follow up later with some suggestions one can do to give more to their body without having to leave home or spend a money.

Slaying the Babesia Beast with Chanca Piedra

I am dealing with a lingering case of pneumonia right now along with tularemia and environmental mold so I have been rather tired.

I plan to hit the mold in my home soon with remote frequencies once I mail a mold sample I made on a mold plate from Home Depot to my practitioner.

I am currently using homeopathic nosodes (vials) of Borrelia and tapping them into my skin/immune system the same way one would do EFT tapping. I checked with my awesome highly intuitive energy/muscle tester today and she said I still have Lyme disease. Luckily my Lyme load numbers are going down at the moment. I have had them jump back up again when I was recently dealing with a bad respiratory infection.

Today by phone my practitioner said I cleared Babesia. Here is a link to the California Lyme Disease Association’s information on Babesia if you would like more information on the disease.

http://www.lymedisease.org/lyme101/coinfections/babesia.html

My practitioner told me I had cleared babs another time recently so I thought I would have her recheck for me. One can’t be 100% certain with energy testing but she seems to think my babs has cleared. The first time she said it was gone I assumed it was due to the remote frequencies she sends me from her biofeedback machine which she utilizes like a Rife machine. Today she told me “No a herb you were taking made it go away and you have currently run out of the herb”.

This is the same practitioner who has called me up once and said “Look in the bag of supplements on the floor there is something in there you need to take”.

She lives on the opposite side of the country so there is no way she knew I had a bag of supplements on the floor so when this person tells me something I pay attention to what she says. She told one of my friends that she is not psychic just scientific. I think she is extremely tuned in and very psychic and also not someone to toot her own horn which is very refreshing to find in a health practitioner. Nor is she at all judgmental which is also refreshing!

Together we figured out that the herb I had been taking that made my babesia leave town was Chanca Piedra also sometimes referred to as Peruvian Breakstone. As most of you know Babesia is referred to as a co-infection. It often comes as a package deal with Lyme disease. Sort of a two for one gift or three for one or so on.

After you receive a tick bite or horse fly bite, or mosquito bite or fill in the blank bite.. when you come down with Lyme disease babesia very often comes along for the ride along with some other equally lovely cos. Some people believe some of the co-infections can actually be more detrimental than Lyme disease. Bartonella has wrecked havoc in my life so I would agree with that statement.

Someone today referred to babesia as a beast. Any disease that hangs on after thousands of dollars worth of malaria meds and makes you have miserable night sweats among other ghastly disgusting symptoms is a beast in my book.

One of my acupuncturists had started me on Chanca Piedra for general and liver support months ago. I had stopped taking it and then my current health practitioner told me to start taking it again one day when we were muscle testing my different supplements over the phone. I don’t think she is even that familiar with the herb but she said I tested positive to take it. Who knew it would also work on the Babesia Beast?

I had read in the past that some people take Chanca Piedra for Malaria and Babesia is suppose to be helped by Malaria meds or so we are often told. Chanca Piedra helps support the liver, kidneys and gallbladder and is often used for people dealing with Hep C.



I am taking Raintree's Chanca Piedra. I take the capsules but they also make a tincture as well. You can find it in capsule and tincture form. It is famous for helping with kidney and gallbladder stones.

I was taking 2 capsules twice a day and now have been told to take one cap three times a day.

Chanca Piedra has many different exciting healing properties. Here is an article about it.

http://www.wholeworldbotanicals.com/herbal_breakstone

According to the article “These species of Phyllanthus have been proven in scientific research to have antihepatotoxic, antispasmodic, antiviral, bactericidal, febrifugal, and hypoglycemic activity.”

The article also states:

“The most recent research on Break-Stone reveals that its antiviral activity extends to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A Japanese research group discovered Phyllanthus niruri 's HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibition properties in 1992 with a simple water extract of the plant. Bristol-Myers Squibb's Pharmaceutical Research Institute isolated at least one of the constituents in the plant responsible for this activity--a novel compound which they named "niruside" and described in a 1996 study.”

Previously I did many months of Mepron and Malarone which are two costly malaria meds many Lyme literate MDs often prescribe for Babesia yet they did not help me leave babsville completely.

When I was leaving Germany after my infrared light treatment the doctor there energy tested me for Babesia and said I was still testing positive for it. It also showed up in DNA testing since then.

Not only is Chanca Piedra not hard on your liver like some other malaria drugs often prescribed for babs the herb actually supports and nurtures your liver. It is a fraction of the cost of both Mepron and Malarone and Alinia.

Dr. Harris mentions Chanca Piedra in Connie Strasheim’s book Insights into Lyme Disease.

I am hoping some other patients with Babesia will try using Chanca Piedra and will report back with their results.

I recently found this link about Chanca Piedra. It mentions it might be a promising herb to take for Lyme disease.

http://www.herballegacy.com/Thomas_Medicinal.html

"Researchers have suggested that another promising area for future study would be the use of Chanca Piedra in treatment of Lyme’s Disease. Since syphilis is caused by a spirochete and Chanca Piedra has traditionally been used for this illness, it would be a good study for the epidemic of Lyme’s Disease, which we are experiencing the northeastern United States, since Lyme’s is also caused by a spirochete. Some herbalists have used Chanca Piedra traditionally for gonorrhea and syphilis."

An update about my Babesia ~ Nov. 21, 2010. I wanted to add my health practitioner tested me more than once in the past 6 months for Babesia and she said it had cleared. Maybe that meant it was just hiding out in remission? I need to clarify if she tested me with the use of my DNA or just through energy testing. I suspect it was with the use of my DNA. Babesia tested that it was gone twice and then recently after a bout with the H1N1 flu which helped increase my load of Wild Nile Virus I tested positive again for Babesia. I also had stopped taking Chanca Piedra because I had not been muscle testing to take it anymore. I now want to start taking it again. I have switched to taking Raintree's Chanca Piedra capsules. I like Raintree's quality.