Foraging - Lyme Disease and Japanese Knotweed

[thelastlivingsouls]

thank you very helpful :D

[bmarley343]

have you ever ground the root into powder for medicine? if so whats the most successful way you have found? thanks for the video.

[bmarley343]

what was that latin name??? japanese knotweed is polygonum cuspidatum

[primitiveskills]

@bmarley343 Fallopia japonica is synonomous with both Polygonum cuspidatum and Reynoutria japonica, the two older latin epitephs. The three labels describe the same plant. Not only is this highly invasive species indicted for Lyme, it tastes great, makes nice water containers, and fragile, but serviceable pan flutes.

[tinallee57]

Thank-you! I've been hearing and reading about using J. knotweed, but this is the first explanation of how to harvest and make my own tincture. It's late May already, but maybe the roots can still be harvested this late.

[TheOutdoorsman07]

i know the plant is edible. the stem and leaves of smaller plants. are thre any dangers of eating this?

[kooodeal]

@TheOutdoorsman07 The root contains resveratrol,but has some compound that can cause diarrhea .

[kfiresmith]

Mike:

Could you tell us the other 2 core herbals to treat lyme?

Thanks!

[feralmaine]

Nice music! I've heard it suggested that one should bring a hatchet to harvest these roots. I saw you with a shovel- did you use any other implements or did that cut it?

-K

[bluenail90]

There's more lymes disease cos the knotweed is taller undergrowth hence the ticks are higher and able to bite arms etc. Killing the deer off also makes the ticks bite white footed mice in winter and so carry it to humans. It's actually a white footed mouse disease. Or something like that ...check it out.

[primitiveskills]

@bluenail90 Deer Mice and white footed mice are primary hosts in the initial step of the two step parasitic cycle of the primary vector of Lyme Disease Ixodes scapularis, (commonly refered to as deer tick or black legged tick).  Cervids, canines, and many other larger mammals (including us) are the primary hosts for the second step in their development. There is no evidence to suggest deer tick behaviora is influenced by the physical presence of Japanese Knotweed.

[MikeMPSSstudent]

As to prevent the disease from entering your body at all, Stephen Buhner suggests a dosage about one third of the core protocol daily. So, if you were infected you would be taking the tincture 3 times daily, as prevention once daily. Hope this helps.

Some further thoughts on prevention: Ticks checks are VITAL. Get into a routine of checking before bed time. A tick needs considerable amount of time to transmit disease (about 24hrs), so there's a way to approach prevention that is not fear based.

[MikeMPSSstudent]

With that being said, I have been treating Lyme since last July. It seems as though the herbal treatment Mr. Buhner puts forth is meant to prevent and/or treat Chronic lyme disease. So, I suffered from the initial flu like symptoms which went away in a few days, and I used the herbals hoping to eradicate the bacteria from my body to prevent it from spreading from my blood to a viscous tissue (eyeballs, joint, ect) and hence attempting to prevent Chronic Lyme. Am I making sense?

[MikeMPSSstudent]

To anyone interested in Lyme Disease, I would recommend reading though the book "Healing Lyme" by Stephen H, Buhner, a well respected herbalist. The books educates the reader on what Lyme Disease actually is and gives specifics on how to both prevent and treat it using herbs (including Japanese Knotweed).

After reading through the book, I understand that treating Lyme disease can be quite tricky. Early symptoms may fade quickly, only to return as chronic Lyme sometimes years down the road.

[64water]

How long have you been treating your lyme this way? Has it gotten rid of your symptoms? How is the tincture used as a preventive?

[StoneBoneAndFire]

Just want make a correction to my previous post, my friend still has Lyme disease, she caught it last year here in the UK, she was off work for months but has now gone back but can only manage one day on one day off. Up till then I was pretty ignorant of it, I thought it was some old school disease, we don't hear much about it over here.

[StoneBoneAndFire]

Very interesting.

A friend of mine recently had Lyme disease, it's certainly something I would like to avoid.

Some great info, thanks for posting.

[capreolus4]

awesome