Product Description

Lyme disease is the fastest growing infectious disease and it is now epidemical in the Northeast, Middle West, and Northwest regions of the United States. The number of reported cases has doubled in last decade and the infection scale has become larger than HIV. Aside from hepatitis C, Lyme Disease may be the second largest infectious disease in this country. Worldwide, it is also rapidly spreading in Canada, Europe, and Asia. There is great controversy concerning the diagnosis, treatments, and prognosis of Lyme disease, especially regarding the chronic and persistent form. This controversy has often left chronically infected patients without adequate medical care. Due to the special features of the Lyme spirochete and its multiple co-infections, conventional Western antibiotics treatments have not proven to be very effective. Stand-alone antibiotics treatment has become less effective overtime due to increased resistance and adaptation of germs. The Western medical approach to this infectious disease is to focus only on killing the pathogen. It does not address the complexities of the Lyme pathogenesis and various associated complications in chronic infections. Modern Chinese medicine is an integration of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. We use this integrative system for the treatment of chronic Lyme disease. With over a decade of practical clinical experience, we have found that modern Chinese herbal treatment with supplemental acupuncture applied to Lyme disease (especially its auto-immunity and immune complex related complications) yields a much better clinical outcome than the conventional stand-alone antibiotics approach. What is modern Chinese herbology and how does its phytopharmacology match with the pathophysiology of Lyme disease? What are the shortcomings of conventional Western approach in treating chronic Lyme disease? How does MCM treat Lyme disease with herbal remedies and what are the phytopharmacology of these herbal remedies? This book is a comprehensive discussion about traditional and Modern Chinese Medicine and aims to answer these questions in detail.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103581 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 158 pages

Review
"The authors have done an outstanding job with combining traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine together." -- Scott Mulliken, N.D. February, 2006

"This is a comprehensive book on the cause and treatment of Lyme disease using modern Chinese medicine..., -- Andrew Weil, M.D. February, 2006

“The authors have done an outstanding job with combining traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine together.” --Scott Mulliken, N.D. February, 2006

“This is a comprehensive book on the cause and treatment of Lyme disease using modern Chinese medicine..., --Andrew Weil, M.D. February, 2006

“… tell your colleagues that Chinese medicine might be one way to help enhance the clinical outcomes of Lyme treatment …” --Virginia Sherr, M.D. February, 2006

About the Author
About the Author – Dr. Qingcai Zhang Following graduation from Shanghai Second Medical University in 1962, Dr. Qingcai Zhang worked as a physician at the Medical University’s Reijing Hospital, conducting clinical and laboratory research to integrate Chinese and Western medicine. He later became an associate professor of medicine at Shanghai Second Medical University. In 1980, he was awarded a World Health Organization scholarship, which supported his two-year fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1984 he worked as a research fellow at the Wakai Clinic in Nagoya, Japan. A year later, he received a one-year appointment from the University of California at Davis as a visiting professor. From 1986 to 1992, Dr. Zhang was the primary researcher at the Oriental Healing Arts Institute in Long Beach, California, where he conducted research on treating AIDS with Chinese medicine, designed herbal formulas for the treatment of AIDS, and published two books on AIDS and Chinese medicine. He began his private practice in 1990, first in Cypress, California, and then in New York City. He is the founder of Zhang’s Clinic in New York City and White Plains, New York. Since 1987, he has been focusing on treating chronic viral infections, such as viral hepatitis and AIDS; infectious diseases such as Lyme disease; and autoimmune diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis, and rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Zhang is a member of the Hepatitis C Caring Ambassadors World Class Brainstorming Team, the Advisory Committee of the Science of Polaris Corporation, Dr. Weil’s web site, and the Silvia Science Pharmaceutical Corporation. He has given lectures on modern Chinese medicine and AIDS, hepatitis, and Lyme disease nationwide. Also by the author: AIDS and Chinese Medicine: Applications of the Oldest Medicine to the Newest Disease, Compound Q – Trichosanthin and its Clinical Applications, and Healing Hepatitis C with Modern Chinese Medicine. He is a contributing author of the following books: Hepatitis C Choices – Distinctive Viewpoints on Choices for Your Hepatitis C Journey, Alternative Medicine –The Definitive Guide, and Family Guide to Natural Medicine.

Customer Reviews

Lyme Disease and Modern Chinese Medicine
This book offers a refreshing approach on how to treat Lyme disease through the use of herbal antibiotics. The author has been treating Lyme cases for many years and is an expert in modern chinese medicine. His approach is simple, yet powerful, and involves the use of several Chinese herbal combinations to treat Lyme and co-infections.
Some of the book is devoted to discussion of the pharmacological properties of the herbs, which I feel is less useful to the layperson and perhaps more useful to a physician or biochemist. I would have liked to have read more about his approach to diet and lifestyle but the book is otherwise excellent. He outlines a full protocol for treating Lyme so that if one wishes to pursue healing without the aid of a physician, this book makes that possible.
Thank you, Dr. Zhang!

Good Ideas, Amateur Experience
A long time sufferer of chronic lyme and its coinfections, I find Dr. Zhang's work to be innovative yet lacking the real depth and experience I find in books by Dr. James Schaller. I would skip this and go directly to the tick infection 'master,' if you want real modern cure dosing and actual studies testing Zhang's methods. Just my opinion!

Explains some Chinese herbal treatments, without requiring knowlege of acupuncture meridians
There are better Lymes treatment books than Lyme Disease and Modern Chinese Medicine

Florida Detox and Wellness Institute has seen more Lymes, Babesia, Mycoplasma and West Nile Virus patients improve with intravenous Vitamin C and Stephen Buhner's Healing Lymes herbal protocol, than Dr. Zhang's Lymes herbal protocols. Intravenous Vitamin C is easily the most effective Lymes disease treatment we have used and has killed pathogens with the least Herxheimer dieoff pain or discomfort.

The herbals recommended in this book are more expensive than herbals recommended by Buhner, and do not seem as effective. You can expect to spend around $300 monthly for Dr. Zhangs herbal Lymes disease regimen and might not see any improvement, in three months. Dr. Zhang's Hepapro company does offer a free consultation, to their herbal customers, after a certain period of time.

This book fails to mention lumbrokinase, which has proven very effective for reducing excess clotting, caused by Lymes and Babesia. This is surprising since earthworm powder, which lumbrokinase is produced from, has been used in China effectively for over one thousand years. Apparently, only Chinese HERBAL medicine is discussed, in this book.

The HH extract, recommended by Dr. Zhang causes indigestion and gastric distress in almost every patient who has tried it and does not seem to have helped any of them. HH increases toxic acetaldehyde levels.

Smilax is very liver protective and may actually have helped some of our Lymes patients.

Buhner provides far more information in Healing Lymes. The Lymes Cure, by Singleton, is also a better Lymes book. Ironically, the best discussion of effective Lymes treatment I have seen is two paragraphs, in Curing the Incurable, by Thomas Levy, MD, JD.

Steven Sponaugle
Research Director
Florida Detox and Wellness Institute