Hi all, I have been lurking for some time now in order to get acquainted with the ' silver list spirit' and I must say that I am quite happy that I found you. I can't recall how I got on this list - but I am sure it must have happened during one of my nightly 'yournies' to find answers to the problems that I am dealing with.
To make a long story very short - borned and raised in Europe, The Netherlands, I moved to South America, Surinam [one of the three Guyanas on the north east coast] in december 1989, accompanied by three Malinois puppies and my husband. I thought that I made the best decision ever till fate met up with my dogs in 95. They became ill and died, one after another. In this third world country human medical care is poor, let be veterinarian care. After buying books like Merck I decided that what seemed to be Babesiosis in the beginning had changed into Ehrlichiosis after a couple of years - there is no way to have bloodtests done to proof *my* view allthough everything points to a combination of Babesiosis/Ehrlichiosis. 5 times 10 to 14 days treatment with Doxycycline with blood and tissue cleaning treatments after the treatments has managed to stop 'the killing' - now it is important to learn about preventing these nasty diseases from infesting my dogs. I have learned about natural ways to create an unfriendly climate for ticks - by using limes [it works, but it took me three years to go from spaying malathion once a month to spaying lime 'juice' every now and then]. I have changed the dogs' diet to a natural one [raw and/or homecooked]. I was lucky to get hold of a bunch of baby neem trees, that are now growing strong to be planted next year around Christmas. I have learned about Essential Oils, Bach remedies and homeopathy in relation to the problems in my kennel and they do their work as well. BUT - my search to learn about rickettsiae [the critters that actually cause Ehrlichiosis] ended up with confusion: our scientists battle over the fact if it is a bacteria or a combination of a bacteria and a virus ..... The information that I was actually looking for was, if rickettsiae would be one celled - meaning CS could be a valuable tool in battling off the nasty critters. A while back somebody mentioned CS to be *the thing to try* so I started doing searches on it. I have learned that it is helpful with Malaria [closely related to Babesiosis], dengue [we are just having a bout of this one], Lyme [this one does not occur over here]. Allthough Lyme is tickborne, the organism that causes it is a spirochete. Spirochetes are one celled - but how about rickettsiae??? I am very aware of the fact that in North America stuff like imidocarb is used to clean out the blood but I don't believe that this is what I want. As we live outside Paramaribo and the wind brings thousands of nymphs out of the forest - the last thing I would want is to clear my dogs' blood from all antibodies. In my belief, a natural approach that creates a complete unfriendly climate for ticks [and their diseases] will be more appropriate: what good is it to get rid of the soldiers [the antibodies] if one knows that they are needed to fight off the next attack? Any input will be highly appreciated, Ignit Bekken, Surinam mailto:ign...@sr.net ------------------------------ -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net>
