Astragalus - question about lyme prevention

Buhner also says that some with chronic Lyme can use it without any issues. He does suggest that the person be 6 months past healing their chronic Lyme infection though.

I've been using it daily for a few years now, and it's working pretty well for me as far as I can tell - I'm continuing to be bit, the worst symptom I have is a super itchy bite for a few weeks as my immune system is seemingly taking care of the bacteria.

There was also some concern about it possibly ramping up the immune system too much for those that already have autoimmune issues. I would say that should be evaluated case by case. My psoriasis is not at all severe, and although I have had signs where it looked like my psoriasis was 'threatening' to flare, it hasn't yet.

Most of this information is in Buhner's books though, not on the site that has his protocols listed. On his site is older information and he has since changed his stance a bit. One of the things I like about Buhner - he never seems to stop learning and changing his protocols for the better.

Hey,

Been a while since I've been on here, hope everyone's doing ok.

Digging up one from a couple of years back here. I was looking into white blood cell count boosters and astragalus came up a number of times. Checking in on the trusty threads here, and turns out it there are some mixed opinions on whether it should be taken by a chronic Lyme patient. I discovered that astragalus is actually an ingredient in Multimessenger by Researched Nutritionals, something my wife has been taking since August. If she hasn't been herxing especially because of it, is it right to assume that she's ok to continue? Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated.

Also, if anybody has any other suggestions on foods and supplements to boost white blood cell count, please share. I hear medicinal mushrooms are great for it.

Buhner wrote that taking Astragalus when you have chronic Lyme could cause an autoimmune type response.

“The reason for not recommending it is that astragalus raises the parts of the immune system that are overactivated in chronic lyme. Those parts of the immune system are highly effective against lyme early on and help prevent or reduce the disease but if they are low to begin with and you are infected the infection can spread more easily. After awhile the immune system does ratchet up those parts to attack the lyme bacteria but by then the spirochete has altered itself and is no longer very affected by them, those parts of the immune system then begin to cause some of the lyme symptoms people have making the disease a kind of autoimmune problem. ”

http://buhnerhealinglyme.com/herbs/astragalus-contraindicated/


But people have taken it with chronic Lyme with no issues.