Townsend Letter for Doctors
Editor:
I want to let you know how well I’ve been since you published my last letter in your November 1992 issue, regarding my plea for help with my fourth Lyme disease attack. Each time I have had a Lyme infection I have been treated with massive doses of antibiotics, but have nevertheless been left with a pattern of recurrent headaches identical to those experienced during the initial acute Lyme episodes. This last time the headaches were so severe that they were disorienting as well as disabling. For several months I could not remember what it was like to have a clear-thinking and pain-free head.
One of your subscribers, Dr. Dorothea Lyndley from Connecticut, contacted me with information about treatment that had been successful for her own chronic Lyme infection. She had been working with a nutritionist who advised Carnivora (Venus Fly Trap extract) as part of a program that also included many vitamin supplements and glandulars.
After I began this program my headaches cleared up about 70%. But each time I opened a new bottle of Carnivora I had a recurrence of devastating flu-like symptoms – high fever, and head and full body aches for 3 days.
After three rounds of this (approximately 3 months) I stopped those treatments, as I decided to accept the 70% remission and live with it. At this time a California physician, Dr. Louis Marx, sent a copy of his herbal book to me, having earmarked the page on “Spirochetes, Lyme Disease.”
Reading his book, I was impressed with his work of the last 10 years on “designer herbals” (with Dr. Clifford Alldridge at the Monastery of Herbs), and called him to discuss my situation.
He encouraged me to order the Spirochete-Lyme program, but told me to expect that it might not give me 100% relief, and also that I might need to do several more herbal programs as one layer of disorder after another required attending to.
I placed my order and waited patiently for the herbal tinctures and capsules to arrive. This took several weeks, because one of the ingredients was back-ordered. But one day they did arrive and I began the herbal program immediately. Within three days the headachy feeling that I have lived with for years was gone. My head was as clear as a bell! It was unbelievable, and extremely pleasurable.
I called Dr. Marx to tell him of my miraculous recovery and he said he was not surprised. His book gives much anecdotal material on miraculous recoveries from chronic ailments. As I am a nurse-psychotherapist, working with my clients in a holistic format, I immediately saw a
new way in which I might eventually help my clients with their myriad problems. In working with cancer patients psychologically. I often attempt to educate them about diet and nutrition, and about the pros and cons of using vitamins to raise energy levels and strengthen immune
responses to their disease. Now we could think of adding some herbal programs.
Dr. Marx planned a workshop to teach health practitioners how to work with their clients with “Neuro kinesiology” (muscle testing and reflex points) and herbals. I attended his first workshop in June 1993. It was a very interesting and educational experience.
I still find that I am a beginner in checking the body’s reflex points with kinesiology, but I am studying and practicing this new “art” with my friends and relatives every day with some favorable results. Anyway, I wanted to bring this new information and my successful personal treatment of Lyme disease to your readers. If anyone needs any further information, I would be very glad to share my experiences with them.
Pearl Bennette Atkin, RN, MA, CS
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Monastery of Herbs Case Study: Treatment of Lyme disease