Japanese Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum) is considered to be one of the main herbs that can help lower, or even eliminate, lyme (specifically leptospira and treponema denticola) spirochetes loads in the body, support the innate immune function to help respond to the borrelia infection, and treat some of the symptoms of Lyme disease including central nervous system confusion, arthritic and bacterial inflammation, protects against endotoxin damage, reuce reduce Herxheimer reactions and is a cardio-protector.1
Also, knotweed enhances blood flow to difficult-to-reach areas and helps other herbsandherbs and/or drugs, and the body's own response to kill the spirochetes that reside in these specifically difficult-to-reach areas.
Stephen Harrod Buhner (expert in the field and author of Healing Lyme) states that Japanese Knotweed can also help to treat the following as are specifically associated with Lyme Disease: "Neuroborreliosis, bulls-eye rash, acarodermatitis chronica atrophicans, low immune function spirochete infection, Lyme arthritis, endothelial damage from Lyme and Lyme coinfections, cardiac involvement, post-Lyme-disease syndrome, bartonella coinfection."2
It is also a good source of vitamin C.
(The other "main" herbs are Cat's Clas Claw and Andrographis.)
Common names for Japanese Knotweed (polygonum cuspidatum) include bushy, Chinese, or Japanese knotweed, mexican bamboo, Hu Zhang, kojo, itadori and hojang. From the Polygonacae family, this difficult to eradicate herb does resemble the bamboo plant, though the leaves are markedly different.
The following are among some of the many actions associated with Japanese Knotweed:1
