New Ideas About the Cause, Spread and
Therapy of Lyme Disease
By Dr. James Howenstine
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, July 2004
The following is an excerpt from the article
Why Are We Experiencing an Epidemic of Lyme Disease?
I do not have a certain answer to this question. There are some facts that may be
relevant. Several US government
scientists including Dr. Shuy-Ching Lo, of the American Institute of Pathology,
hold a patent on a Pathogenic Mycoplasma (mycoplasma fermentans) which has been
converted into a crystalline form.
In the patent application the diseases AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome,
Wegener’s Granulomatosis, Sarcoidosis, lupus and Alzheimer’s Disease were
mentioned as related to this patented form of mycoplasma fermentens. The crystalline form of mycoplasma
fermentens contains the part of the brucella bacteria that causes disease in
patients. In its crystalline form this mycoplasma
can be transmitted into subjects by intravenous administration or
injections, spread as an aerosol, implanted by the bite of an insect, or placed
into food or water. There is no laboratory evidence for infection by brucella in subjects who have received the “crystalline pathogenic mycoplasma.”
When a nation is developing biologic warfare agents it is imperative
that these agents be tested on humans to evaluate the results. If an infectious biologic warfare agent
was able to produce person to person transfer it would have to be regarded as a
gigantic success.
In the Faroe Islands in 1943 British biowar researchers ran tests to see
if sheep could be infected by air-borne brucella. The brucella spread into sheep dogs as brucella canis and
then appeared to cause several humans to develop multiple sclerosis.
In 1947 and 1948, approximately 1,100 school children in remote northern
Icelandic villages (Akureyri) became ill with a new disease that caused severe
burning pain in the limbs, profound muscle weakness, and severe fatigue. Of these 1,100 teenagers who became
ill, 5 of the students developed an aggressive form of Parkinson’s disease and
proceeded to die (unheard of in teenagers not using methedrine-like
drugs). The United States had
effective control of Iceland during these years and a research scientist
trained in plant and animal virology at the Rockefeller Institute (oriented
toward eugenics), Dr. Bjorn Sigurdson, was installed to start an Institute of
Experimental Pathology at the University of Iceland with $200,000 in grant
money from the Rockefeller Institute.
In 1950 a group of American physicians, microbiologists, and biologic
researchers sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation arrived in Iceland to study
the effects of the mystery illness that had struck Northern Iceland. The appearance of a new disease was of
such great interest that Icelandic Disease was promptly reported in the New
England Journal of Medicine.
The Canadian government set up the Dominion Parasite Laboratory in
Belleville, Ontario in the 1950’s and 60’s to grow one hundred million mosquitos
a month. In late August of 1984, 500 persons in
the St. Lawrence Valley became ill with a mystery illness which had the
profound weakness seen in brucellosis without any laboratory evidence of
brucella infection. One woman was
certain her illness came from a mosquito bite. She recalled being bitten by a mosquito and woke up the next
day with a target skin lesion at the bite site (same skin lesion as seen in
Lyme Disease) and such profound weakness she was unable to get out of bed. Another woman recalled a target lesion
at the site of a mosquito bite. Both women remain ill 20 years later.
Citizens in Punta Gorda, Florida woke up one spring morning in 1956 with
a cloud of mosquitos in their town.
Calls to the Meteorological Service about the mosquito influx were
answered with the information that there had been a forest fire thirty miles
away in the Everglades and that these mosquitos had fled the fire. The truth is mosquitos will not move
from one side of a barn to the other when a fire breaks out, let alone fly
30 miles. One week later 5 persons appeared in the
local medical clinic with symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.
In 1984 mycoplasma may have been transmitted by aerosol into a high
school in Incline Village, Nevada, where many persons suddenly developed
chronic fatigue syndrome. Children
became ill with a similar mysterious illness in 1984 after drinking goat’s milk
in Lyndonville, New York. The
cities of Adelaide, Australia 1949, West Otago, New Zealand 1984, and Royal
Free Hospital London, England 1955 have all been visited by mini-epidemics of chronic
fatigue syndrome.
These mycoplasmas, when activated by stress, are avid consumers of
sterols including cholesterol.
A series of chemical reactions ensues culminating in the creation of
cyanate which causes failure of normal energy production by the mitochondria of
the cells. This could produce the
profound weakness and fatigue characteristics of chronic fatigue syndrome. A 2 to 3 month trial of 300 to 500 mg.
of CoQ10 daily might be able to improve energy output by the mitochondria thus
possibly alleviating the profound fatigue.
When the illness causes painful trigger points, it is best termed
fibromyalgia. These painful sites
are located where blood flow is stagnant.
Chronic infections are known to produce high viscosity blood which tends
to clot a flow more slowly than normal.
Profound dysfunction of the hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal, thyroid
glands and gonads is very common in mycoplasmal, fungal, and anerobic bacterial
infections. The avid consumption
of cholesterol by activated mycoplasma could be a contributing factor to these
endocrine disorders because cholesterol is needed to create several important
hormones (estrogen, testosterone, progesterone, hydrocortisone, aldosterone).
Bacteriologist Dr. Arthur Kendall was able to produce 16 distinct
bacteria8 by simply using different culture media to culture the
same bacteria. Dr. Royal Rife’s
Universal Microscope could see organisms as small as viruses. By using Dr. Rife’s microscope Dr.
Kendall could actually see living organisms change their characteristics as the
culture media were changed. Dr.
G.C. Gruner of McGill University used an asparagus media to grow a fungus found
in the blood of patients with cancer.
When this fungus was grown in Kendall’s medium it converted into the Bx
virus which had been proven by Koch’s postulates to cause cancer. These experiments proved that the
fungus that Dr. Gruner saw in the blood of cancer patients was actually the
same organism as the Bx virus that Dr. Kendall had proven causes cancer. Obviously, biologic micro-organisms exhibit considerable pleomorphism
which may explain why observers do not find the same organisms in patients with
chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and Lyme Disease as those being found
by other observers (HHN-G, CMV, EBV viruses, parasites Bb, ehrlichae, babesia,
bartonella, mycoplasma, Chlamydia, anerobic bacteria, yeast and fungi have all
been implicated).
There is considerable evidence that many patients with Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Lyme disease have an infectious disease. Lyme disease needs to be considered in
every patient with a chronic illness.
LD can produce every disease found in the Diagnostic Symptoms Manual
for psychiatric illness (attention deficit disorder ADD, antisocial personality,
panic attacks, anorexia nervosa, autism, Aspergers syndrome, etc.).
Skilled antimicrobial therapy should permit many of these unfortunate
patients to regain their health.
TOA-free cat’s claw will be valuable for many persons with Bb found by
blood tests and culture. Sulfoxime and dioxychlor will relieve the pain found in
fibromyalgia. Dietary changes,
correction of pH, detoxification and stress reduction counseling can all be
beneficial.
The United States maintains a biological warfare research laboratory on
Plum Island directly across Long Island Sound from the sites where Lyme Disease
and West Nile Disease were first encountered in Old Lyme and Madison,
Connecticut. Massive deaths of
birds are common at the sites where West Nile viral disease appears, suggesting
that the illness may afflict birds before entering humans. Dr. Warren Levin of Wilton,
Connecticut states that 56% of the families in Wilton have at least one family
member with LD. Could seagulls
containing crystalline mycoplasma fermentens and West Nile Virus have escaped
or been released from Plum Island?
Much of this information about biowarfare agents and crystalline
mycoplasma fermentens is from an article written by biochemist Donald W. Scott
and published in the Winter 2003 edition of The Journal of Degenerative
Diseases Volume 5 Number 1. The publisher is Common Cause Medical
Research Foundation, Box 133, Station B, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 4NR
Canada.
Favorable
Therapeutic Results with TOA-Free Cat’s Claw in Lyme Disease
A pilot study treated 28 patients with Advanced Chronic Lyme Disease with TOA-Free Uncaria
tomentosa. Conventional cat’s claw contains TOA
alkaloids that interfere with the desired immune modulation. The 14 person control group was given
antibiotic therapy. At the study’s
termination 85% of those receiving the cat’s claw preparation no longer had
positive blood tests for Bb. All 28 persons had experienced a dramatic
improvement in their clinical condition. No significant changes
were seen in the control group.
The Prima Uña de Gato can be obtained from Allergy Research Group
800-545-9960, Nutramedix (product name Samento Plus) 561-745-2917, and from
Farmacopia at 800-896-1484. Dr. Whitaker’s lab can be reached by Internet at www.Bowen.org or by calling 727-937-9077 to arrange blood Bb testing. Improving nutrition, detoxifying and
improving mental health all contribute to good results. Removal of mercury amalgams and treatment of heavy metals may be needed.
Much of this information about LD was obtained from “Lyme disease:
Nutraceutical Breakthrough Using TOA-Free Cat’s Claw” published in Focus by Allergy Research Group (October 2003) and
from the November and December 2003 issues of Dr. Robert Rowen’s Second
Opinion.
Dr. James Howenstine is a specialist in internal medicine. He is author of the book A
Physician’s Guide to Natural Health Products that Work, 328
pg. $17.95. His book can be
obtained from Amazon.com, naturalhealthteam.com and by calling
1-800-416-2806. Dr. Howenstine can
be reached at jimhow@racsa.co.cr and by
writing Dr. James Howenstine c/o Remarsa USA SB 37, P.O. Box 25292, Miami,
Florida 33102-5292.
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