http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/3/prweb512323.htm
Clinical Study Tests Herbal Protocol for Effectiveness in
Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease; Successful Protocol Interests
Doctors and Lyme Patients Seeking Alternatives to Antibiotics
Clinical trial underway to test effectiveness of specific herbal
protocol in the treatment of Lyme Disease. Herbs under scrutiny are
Samento, Cumanda and Burbur. Lyme-literate physicians and study
director discuss the protocol's success. Study interests doctors and
Lyme patients seeking successful alternatives to the use of orthodox
antibiotics.
Asheville, NC (PRWEB) March 19, 2007 -- A year-long clinical study
is underway to test the effectiveness of an herbal protocol in the
treatment of Chronic Lyme disease. Samento, Cumanda and Burbur are
under scrutiny, herbs that have long been used in South America in
the treatment of malaria and other serious diseases. Study results
are encouraging to Lyme experts and patients seeking safe
alternatives to conventional medicine.
According to the study director, pharmacist Philip Kielman of the
Netherlands, the twelve week preliminary report shows a sixty five
percent reduction in symptoms in the treatment group, and a twenty
percent reduction in symptoms in the placebo group. "I think that's
great," says Kielman, noting that conventional pharmaceutical drugs
are often approved with a treatment group success rate of only
thirty percent.
Physician and medical researcher Wm. Lee Cowden uses Samento to
treat patients diagnosed with Lyme disease, and has refined his
protocol by adding Cumanda, Burbur and other herbs. Dr. Cowden says
the herbs used in his protocol are available through Nutramedix,
which imports them directly from Peru to the US and the UK. Jean
Reist, RN, of Pennsylvania, recommends that her patients who have
been diagnosed with Lyme use Burbur to encourage lymph drainage,
which, she explains, is "critical for healing from Lyme disease." Dr
Andrew Wright of the UK, has used Samento to treat over five hundred
patients diagnosed with Chronic Lyme disease. "Samento is safe and
well-tolerated in most patients," he says.
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