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Lyme Disease
In Vitro Effectiveness of
Samento and Banderol Herbal Extracts on the Different Morphological forms of
Borrelia Burgdoferi.
Summary of New Research
by Akshita Datar, Navroop Kaur, Seema Patel, David F Luecke, and Eva Sapi,
PhD, Lyme Disease Research Group, University of New Haven.
From article:
The in vitro study was conducted by Lyme Disease Research Group,
University of New Haven, West Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
In this study two herbal extracts from the Cowden Condensed Support Program,
named
Samento and
Banderol,
as well as doxycycline (one of the primary antibiotics for Lyme disease
treatment) were tested for their in vitro effectiveness on several of the
different morphological forms of Borrelia burgdorferi (spirochetes, round
bodies and biofilm-like colonies).
Our results showed that doxycycline was very effective in eliminating the
spirochetal form of Borrelia burgdorferi, but it significantly increased
the round body forms of these bacteria. Comparing this doxycycline data to that
of the herbal extracts, Banderol, and the combination of Samento and Banderol
were more efficient in eliminating both the spirochetal and round body forms.
In the next set of experiments, we evaluated the effect of the different
antimicrobial agents on biofilm-like colonies. In the presence of both herbal
extracts (Banderol and Samento), no sign of any colony formation was observed
inn the cultures, but we found evidence of a few individual non-motile but green
spirochetes and round bodies. In the presence of doxycycline, the average colony
size were increased the contained mainly live round body forms.
Our results demonstrated that both herbal agents, but not doxycycline, had
very significant effects on all forms of Borrelia burgdorferi, especially when
used in combination, suggesting that herbal agents could provide an effective
therapeutic approach for Lyme disease patients.
Richard Horowitz, MD, President of the International Lyme and Associated
Diseases Educational Foundation (ILADEF), has prescribed the Cowden Condensed
Support Program for over 2,000 of his patients and reports that it is effective
for more than 70% of them.
See here for more information on herbal extracts
Samento and
Banderol.
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