Salt C Question

I've been using regular sodium chloride tablets. Sea salt dissolved in water makes me gag - I just can't do it.

Is using sodium chloride bad for this protocol? I feel fine with it... but then again I've never taken more than 2g.


Hi Rob,

>> I've been using regular sodium chloride tablets. Sea salt dissolved in water makes me gag - I just can't do it.

Have you considered putting the salt in veggie caps? We do this for my wife, who also doesn't like to drink the saline. In fact, we buy the salt and vitamin C in bulk and use the largest veggie caps available.


I get my salt from here http://drclarkstore.com/10360.html, and get the veggie caps at a coop in the city.

>> Is using sodium chloride bad for this protocol?

I found that the dieoff from pure sodium chloride was more intense than that from Real (mined sea) Salt.
The original protocol actually called for using sodium chloride capsules, so it is fine to use that.

However, I use 3/4 sodium chloride, and 1/4 real salt, in order to get the added minerals in the real salt.
I've been using 3 ts salt/1 ts real salt for well over a year, combined with about 8 g vitamin C.

FYI, I hear that Cosco has sodium chloride caps for a good price, although you have to get them from behind the counter.

>> I feel fine with it... but then again I've never taken more than 2g.

Ya, you'll have to increase that amount dramatically to follow the s/c protocol.


I'm nervous to use more. What besides lots of water should I use? Should I take a potassium supplement?


SO MANY folks are now on this protocol, it's amazing. I'm not hearing of any side effects of long term use.

I do think it's wise to supplement potassium with this illness, regardless of whether or not you're on s/c, but I would think more importantly if you are.

I take 3/4 ts of Gerson Potassium Compound salts daily in 3 doses.

This mixture of salts was developed by Gerson to combat cancer by increasing intracellular ph. This is critical for lyme patients as well, so I like this potassium product better than any I'm aware of.


Is the potassium something to take in capsules too? How is the taste in water?


Be sure to take LOTS of water if you use capsules. The salt can make you nauseaus. It has made my wife throw up at times. I presume the salt starts sucking water out of the lining of your stomach, which triggers an alarm.

Note that over time this issue seems to go away, as long as you take a reasonable amount of water.

Note that my wife and I have been on s/c for nearly 21 months now, with no foreseeable issues. She does take potassium daily, but not as much as myself.



Rob,

I think those are the right ones. To make sure, check out www.lymephotos.com.

www.bionatus.com/nutramedix/pages/cumanda_what.htm

What is the word on this herb? It is supposed to be a good pain releiver, a good antifungal and rid the body of Lyme.



Hi Polly,

Cumanda is reasonably highly regarded, perhaps most commonly used in Dr. Cowdens's combination samento/cumanda therapy. Here, you take samento for 12.5 days, cumanda for 12.5 days, and take 3 days. During the 25 day on periods presumably the samento and cumanda kills off some borrelia sprichetes and encourages others to become borrelia cysts. The off period is necessary to encourage borrelia cysts to transform back into spirochetes.

http://www.samento.com.ec/sciencelib/4lyme/Lymeprotocolkinesiology3.htm

I've been doing the samento/cumanda therapy for probably 9 or 10 months, and the dieoff from cumanda was initially pretty intense. Note that I've also been taking eyebright tincture, japanese knotweed tincuture, andrographis tincture, noni (intracellular borrelia), mangostein (potentially a borrelia cyst buster), Olive leaf (limited action against borrelia), allicin/garlic (active against borrelia), and colloidal silver (believed active against borrelia),all usually on either a 25/3 schedule or 21/7 schedule.) Thus it is hard to tell how important the cumanda has been in and of itself. With that said I do seem to be making good progress.... feeling a lot more stable and my lyme bloodwork is improving dramatically.

Note however, for what it's worth, of the long list of antiborrelia agents I've been on, cumanda is the only one that Dr. Klinghardt believes I've developed a problem with. He claims using his form of muscle testing that I've developed a problem with it. Thus, I'm going to switch to using the quina/samento combination therapy instead.

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