Re: Knotweed brand to buy.Buhner list

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> So what knotweed is best to kill babesia?  Ie most tolerated by the body.

The best knotweed to use as far as Buhner is concerned is... knotweed lol.

He says to buy real knotweed rather than buying resveratrol. Resveratrol is

obtained by extraction from either japanese knotweed or red wine. He says to try

not to buy resveratrol but rather to buy actual japanese knotweed. 1st Chinese

is the place that he has previously suggested to purchase it from. I buy my

Japanese knotweed from them in bulk and get my empty capsules from my local

Chinatown district for cheap. I use a capsule maker I bought for $20 off the

net(I don't like the taste of the raw herbs so I make capsules out of them).

I buy most of my Buhner herbs bulk from 1st Chinese. It is so much cheaper that

way. On the downside it can be a pain in the butt to continually make capsules

but what a savings. I think I paid about $250 for a years worth of herbs from

them. (red root, knotweed, cats claw, artemisia annua, stephania, andrographis)

They have a few different choices for the bulk product. You can buy it in

powder, cut and sift or concentrated powder.

The powder is just that...the herb ground into a powder.

The cut and sift product is just slices of the dry herb that you would have to

cut up. Most people don't like this form. I bought my stephania in this form so

I could make an eyewash. To turn it into powder I took some of the slices and

ground it in my coffee maker. This works quite well for me but others have said

their coffee grinder wasn't strong enough.

The concentrated powder is not in the natural form. It has been processed and

its list of ingredients includes corn among other things. If you have any

allergies you might want to ask about the ingredients before you buy this form.

Seems to me that you would want to use artemisia annua to treat babesia.

Make sure its the annua variety and not the absynthe. It is kinda confusing at

first because the names are so similar. Buhner says that artemisinun is not as

good as the whole herb. However I believe that you have to take more of the

whole herb.

I have been treating with the herbs for a while. I recently added minocyline to

the mix along with serrapeptase and GSE. It feels like I was getting ahold of

the Lyme disease when along came the night sweats and shortness of breath again.

I think that the abx was getting the Lyme disease under control and that gave

the babesia a chance to make a comeback. I am using 9 caps 4xs day of artemisia

annua herb from 1st chinese. Within a week the symptoms were gone. This time I

will take it for a few months just to make sure.

BTW after taking artemisia annua for 2 weeks our stomachs will start to make

enzymes that destroy the artemisia before it is digested. It takes a week after

stopping it before the enzymes are not created anymore. For that reason many

prescribers of artemisia annua say to pulse it. IMHO if you are taking it in

capsule form you should follow this pulsed regime but if using the tincture this

may not apply because the tinctures are generally absorbed before they hit the

gut thus no enzymes are formed.

Hope that helps.

Take Care,

Chris