Hi Mumonk!
Welcome to our community! I'm so glad you found us.
If you haven't yet, it would be helpful for you to start with reading through the thread at the top of the forum titled,"New to Lyme?...Start here!!", as it is packed full of important information, symptom lists, helpful links and pdf's, how to detox when one has these infections, information on probiotics and much more. And this is another good list of possible detoxing routines:
www.tiredoflyme.com/detox-methods.html Detoxing for us is an incredibly important part of our healing.
I've just started learning about
GcMAF. While I think it's worth looking into, it's not for bacterial infections as far as I've seen, but for enhancing the immune function and for fighting things like viruses and cancer. If it was only that we needed to enhance our immune function to heal, then this would be very helpful, but it's only one part of what we need to do in order to heal. Although, this may be very useful as a first line treatment, along with the appropriate abx.
And, after having used Cistus Tea myself, I do have to agree with Bluelyme in that it can definitely make things worse. Busting
open a bunch of biofilms released all kind of bacteria and viruses for me and I had to stop treatments all together and just detox to get back to solid ground again.