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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