Garlic [and herbs] holds promise in treating lingering Lyme disease

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Oils from garlic and other common herbs and medicinal plants are showing promise in the lab for treating the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, and may prove especially useful in treating those who continue to have symptoms after antibiotic treatment, Johns Hopkins University researchers have found...
For most people, a course of doxycycline or other antibiotic clears up the infection in a few weeks.
But 10 to 20 percent experience lasting symptoms that include fatigue and joint pain.
Some researchers have speculated that this persistent Lyme infection, or post-treatment Lyme disease, is a new disorder triggered by the initial infection. The Hopkins researchers also say the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, can enter a stationary or slow-growing phase, and so-called persister cells from the bacteria are more resistant to antibiotics...
The research included lab-dish tests of 35 essential oils, pressed from plants or their fruits. Ten of these, including oils from garlic cloves, myrrh trees, thyme leaves, cinnamon bark, allspice berries and cumin seeds, showed the strongest killing activity against the Lyme persister cells...
Zhang previously found that antibiotic combinations and drugs used to treat resistant bacteria, such as MRSA, work better than standards antibiotics in treating Lyme disease. He plans to test the oils in animals and later in humans...

The journey from petri dish to animals to humans can take a decade and a king's ransom as the system has been developed. But Trump has put in a bit of a revolutionary in at the helm of the FDA, Scott Gottlieb. He has already made unprecedented moves to streamline, innovate, and clean things up. Of course, nothing is stopping us from using herbs ourselves right now. Anyone interested in this should check out Stephan Buhner's work.