In 2001, I was asked by a Scottish doctor to teach homeopathy at a Kanak Catholic shrine in Vanuatu (next to New Caledonia). At the end of my stay, rather than have him pay me my fees, I asked him to put me in touch with a Kanak healer.
Two days later, accompanied by a young guide, we set off to meet him through the rainforest. After a good hour’s walk, I had a minor fall. When we arrived, a man greeted us warmly. It’s Marcel, our healer. He looks at my shin and discovers a minor abrasion.
He immediately warns me: “You fell on a path littered with fire coral debris. If you’re not immune to it, the bacteria can cause serious infections”
Two days later, my little graze began to redden, to take on the shape of a star with very regular branch outlines, and then to fester. As Marcel, my healer, had advised, I cleaned it with a lime.
My leg had doubled in size.
On the 10th day, I decided to return home to Switzerland. As a precaution, in Nouméa, I take antibiotics before flying back to Europe.
After 3 days of treatment, I notice a slight improvement before it starts to grow again. At home, I use my own products: doses of pyrogenium (auto lysate) in successive dilutions. Improvement was brief. The next day, the leg had quadrupled in volume.
I contact a Swiss surgeon friend: “If you’re coming to see me, it must be serious”, he tells me.
During the consultation, he retires with his two colleagues and a few minutes later, he recommends amputating my leg to avoid septicemia, knowing that an antibiogram would have taken too long. I suggest that he give me the most appropriate antibiotic, and then I go home.
For the 1st time, I’m interested in essential oils, which have antiseptic properties. I massaged these oils into my body and took a few drops, 3 times a day, after diluting them to obtain certain oils in the 1st decimal and 3rd decimal dilutions (we’re still in the phyto field here). After 10 days of treatment, the results are spectacular: the pus stops flowing and the wound closes up.
“CASE CLOSED
Two years later, I returned to Vanuatu to continue my teaching in homeopathy. After a week’s stay, I notice redness on my shinbone and the reappearance of a suppurating star-shaped sore (the same as 2 years earlier).
I clean it with lemon, as Marcel had advised 2 years earlier. It closes up for good.
I had to return to this biotope in Vanuatu to produce antibodies against this bacterium, which is foreign to us Europeans.
I’m convinced that our immune system is built according to the biotope in which we live”. An observation which, 15 years later, would help me to cure myself of Lyme disease, and to understand why I had difficulty getting rid of this infection on my leg, as I was already invaded by spirochetes. The bite with its halo, contracted in Normandy, the region where I had settled for my retirement, was the one that triggered it all.
One morning, in May 2015: THE SHOCK!!!! The left side of my face was completely collapsed and paralyzed. Thinking it was a stroke, I took aspirin while waiting for a consultation. After 2 days of observation (CT scan, Doppler, blood tests and so on….) the cause of my paralysis remains unknown. I returned home. As the days went by, I gradually regained feeling in my face without any intervention or treatment.
Three months later, the same paralysis returned, but on the other side of my face.
I remember being bitten 6 months earlier by a tick on my left arm. I removed it, as usual, without giving it much thought, because since I was a child, I’d been bitten 2 or 3 times a year without much consequence. But a few days after removing it, I noticed an aureole and felt a lot of itching and pain.
I asked a Swiss surgeon friend to intervene with a neurologist and get a lumbar puncture. I was hospitalized. The results reveal that I have been developing antibodies against this bacterium for a very long time. My apprehension is confirmed: I have “borreliosis” or Lyme disease.
I’m given a course of intravenous antibiotics. “Ceftriaxon”, 2 infusions a day: the treatment recommended by Dr Horowitz, who takes the precaution of having patients sign a discharge form because of the very serious side effects. In fact, the next day, my blood pressure rose to 17.
As a naturopath, I decide to take care of myself.
After signing a waiver, I leave the establishment and stop my treatment.
Research into my health history reveals that I’ve been bitten by ticks regularly since the age of 12. This gave me a better understanding of my kidney infections and my recurring unexplained aches and pains (backache, neck pain, swollen joints, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, difficulty urinating, leg cramps, knee pain, loss of balance, memory loss, visual problems, difficulty concentrating on a project, jumping from one idea to another at the slightest annoyance, disproportionate tantrums, unable to reason myself out). My repeated visits to the doctor had no effect.
I have relied on French, English, German and American medical and scientific research to establish that no treatment is convincing.
My experience has led me to believe that we must treat “a patient” and not “a disease”.
Each patient must have his or her own, well-targeted and very individual treatment, starting with his or her “temperament remedy” at the time, but which can be modified throughout life.
In fact, I’d like to dwell for a moment on the importance of the temperament remedy, especially for someone suffering from “borreliosis”. It is the patient’s physico-chemical reactions that determine a certain number of symptoms, all of which indicate the “simillimum” remedy. It should be noted that mental symptoms play an important role in determining this simillimum.
The basic remedy should always be administered in very high dilutions, from 1000 to 50000K (Korsakovian dilutions)
In my experience, borreliosis can be treated with homeopathy, phytotherapy, especially essential oils such as oregano and cinnamon, trace elements, organotherapy and “nosodes” (pathological substances secreted and then taken from the untreated patient), sauna for those who don’t have heart failure and intestinal bacteria with, for example, lacto-fermented cabbage. And above all, Chlorella is essential for all heavy metals and other toxins (be careful with the quality of Chlorella).
A healthy terrain also means food, and therefore probiotics (sauerkraut-based foods, kefir, fermented pineapple, kimchi, etc.).
It should also be noted that physical or psychological traumas block the flow of energy.
Borreliosis can be treated, but not always definitively.
From the 1st symptoms (appearance of the aureole), a combination of antibiotics (imperative) and essential oils is the best compromise.
When there is neurological damage (3rd degree, like me), antibiotic treatment has no effect, apart from side effects.
Essential oils work differently from antibiotics, because they destroy the entire structure of the bacteria. There are two plants and their medicinal substances that I’d recommend in practically every treatment protocol: Japanese knotweed. But berberine is especially important, in different forms and concentrations depending on the patient’s condition. Depending on the concentration, it can act as a hepato-reinal drainer or as a vasodilator and blood sugar regulator. Spyrochetes hate the terrain modified by these two plants. I’m astonished by the very positive results of berberine, which tells me that we’re far from knowing everything about its benefits in the fight against borreliosis (berberine is extracted from the Berberis Aristata plant, which I prefer. But be careful! Very few labs produce more than 97% berberine and without additives)
Another very effective treatment that I also use: Chlorine dioxide and dimethylsulfoxide, the use of which I’ll discuss in more detail in a separate article.
Resistance and addiction occur with antibiotics because they are generally made up of 1 or 2 molecules, whereas essential oils have thousands. The composition of essential oils must be adapted to each patient (e.g. wallflower is not suitable for people with high blood pressure).
It is also important to know that the bacterium is not the same in every country or region, and that treatment may vary according to the age of the patient and the age of the bite.
Patients must be aware of their reactions during treatment: dilutions can sometimes be modified and certain products (essential oils) suspended because of Jarisch-Herxheimer reactions. Once the bacteria have been destroyed, various serrapeptases are used (there are different serrapeptases; personally, I prefer the enzymes taken from the intestines of silkworms) to destroy the biofilm and kill the remaining bacteria; doing both at the same time would be too violent and unbearable.
These reactions are triggered by the destruction of the bacteria, and it’s important to remember that these helicoidal bacteria have a kind of intelligence: when some of them feel attacked, they secrete a substance to protect themselves, called biofilm. The bacterium can remain encysted and inactive for years in different parts of the body (perhaps mainly in the brain, eyes or joints), and when your immune system loses momentum, or under great stress or physical shock, it wakes up, frees itself and resumes its destructive action in any part of the body, still without causing infection. Unfortunately, most of the time this disease is accompanied by various co-infections, such as Mycoplasma pneumo or human granulocitary Lanaplasmosis, also transmitted by ticks and belonging to vector-borne diseases, and will also be treated with antibiotics…
As these natural treatments are not reimbursed, it’s important to know that you’ll need to spend between €500 and €1,200 a year on the products required for treatment. Indeed, these products often come from different countries: France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, United States….)
My passion for natural medicine led me to travel the world from the age of 20.
I met many different tribes and healers and discovered all these medicinal plants whose benefits are still unknown. (It’s best to take medicinal plants from your own region, in the biotop where you live). This helped me a lot to understand how the immune system works, because that’s what it’s all about.
Today, I’m close to 80.
I no longer feel any of the symptoms described above. I ride horses again without any problems, I travel extensively across continents with my motorcycle, my joints have deflated, I’ve regained flexibility and I no longer have any pain.
“Thanks to my natural treatments, I feel rejuvenated”.
Those seriously affected by Lyme disease should not lose hope. Natural medicine can put them on the road to recovery, or at least to well-being.
I hope, through my testimony, to be able to help some of you solve your health problems. The official diagnostic system (western blood and Elisa) has been voluntarily standardized by the Americans, and is absolutely unreliable. Many people are negative to the various blood tests, so many are unaware that they are affected by borreliosis and other co-infections.
The peculiarity of this disease is that it mimics more than two hundred and fifty different pathologies, such as rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, swelling and joint pain, depression, insomnia, tension etc., and this is the big difficulty of screening!!!
“We can only speak well of what we have experienced”.
These bites can be transmitted by ticks, horseflies (just confirmed by German biologists), spiders and mosquitoes. Sexual transmission is not always automatic. Today, as we said earlier, this disease mimics more than 250 Symptoms
1. Pain
- Redness around the bite or erythema migrans
- Redness or pimples on other parts of the body
- Joint pain (knee, wrist, fingers, elbow, hip, etc.)
- Swollen toes and feet
- Ankle pain, Achilles heel pain
- Burning sensation under feet or hands
- Foot cramps
- Fever, sweating or chills
- Muscle pain and cramps, difficulty walking
- Fatigue, exhaustion, lack of stamina
- Abnormal hair loss
- Inflammation of glands
- Sore throat
- Pelvic or testicular pain
- Irregular menstruation
- Sore breasts, milk production (lactation)
- Bladder and urinary function disorders
- Libido disorders
- Irritable and sensitive stomach
- Bowel function disorders (constipation, diarrhoea)
- Chest and rib pain
- Shortness of breath, cough
- Heart palpitations, extrasystoles, arrhythmia…
- Joint pain and/or inflammation (arthritis)
- Stiffness/racking of neck and back
- Throbbing or shooting pains in muscles
- Tingling, numbness
- Trembling of one or more limbs, without or after exertion
- Pain in jaws, teeth and/or when chewing
- Nervous twitches in the face or eyelids
- Facial paralysis
- Eyes/vision: double, blurred, pain, perception of flying objects
- Ears/hearing: ringing, whistling, tinnitus, pain
- Dizziness, loss of balance, increased seasickness
- Brain unclear, difficult to function
- Headache
- Mental confusion
- Difficulty thinking (fuzzy thinking), concentrating and reading
- Short-term memory loss and forgetfulness
- Problems with orientation: getting lost or going where you don’t want to go
- Problems with writing, dysorthography and/or speaking
- Depression, irritability, mood swings for no reason
- Sleep disorders: too much, too little, waking up at night or too early
- Enhanced effects of alcohol
- Unexplained weight change (gain or loss)
- Punching sensations in abdomen or back
- Problems swallowing
- Sensory illusions
- Imprecise gestures (such as “dropping a glass”)
- Muscle fasciculations (jerking muscles, like horses)
- shortness of breath
- calf pain
- Rumathoid arthritis (same symptoms)
- Endometriosis (aggravated by boreliosis)
I only mention a quarter of the symptoms.
A.S
(I’m at the disposal of people who already practise natural medicine for themselves, and who have understood that the healthiest, most natural food possible is imperative. I don’t want to convince anyone, but this is the only way to achieve a positive result. I can tell you within 5 to 10 minutes whether you have this disease or not.)