Modern Chinese Medicine Multi-Target Regulatory Treatment Approach for Chronic LD

To deal with the dilemma of conventional medicine in the care of LD, we developed our MCM multi-target regulatory “Fuzheng Quxie (strengthening the body resistance to eliminate pathogenic factors)” protocol for chronic LD, which consists of 1. Anti-infection, 2. Immune regulation, 3. Global health support, 4. Treatments of the complications such as Hashimoto, vasculitis, myocarditis, …

Lack of Sensitive and Accurate Tests to Diagnose, Monitor, and Determine the End-Point of Treatment for LD

In the real world practice the treatment of chronic LD has one more difficulty that is lack of accurate and sensitive tests that can correctly diagnose and monitor the Lyme infections. There is no test that is reliable enough to show the real infectious status of the patient. It is difficult to evaluate the treatment …

Dilemma of Conventional Medicine in the Care of Chronic LD

In the care of chronic LD, conventional medicine which mainly relies on antibiotics (ABXs) has some difficulties: a. LD needs long term treatment, but ABXs are not designed for long term use. To use for a few weeks is fine, not for months or years. Long term use ABXs makes more harm than good. Long …

Chronic LD is a Complex Condition that cannot be Resolved in Simple Way

Chronic LD is a very complicated condition: multiple pathogen co-infections, multiple body systems affected, and multiple pathophysiological mechanisms involved, LD caused multiple complications and wild spectrum of symptoms. It is a complexity condition that cannot be resolved by a simple method – sole anti-infection by using antibiotics alone. For the complex condition of chronic LD, …

It is chronic LD not post treatment Lyme syndrome

First, I must emphasize that we are dealing with “chronic Lyme disease” not “post treatment Lyme disease syndrome.” The later term tries to say that LD can be resolved within a few weeks with antibiotics treatment and the lingering problem is “post LD” disorder. In the reality the antibiotics alone cannot totally eradicate the multiple …

Lyme Disease is a Controversial Topic

I am Dr. Qingcai Zhang, an alternative medicine – modern Chinese medicine, practitioner in New York. I have been using MCM to treat Lyme disease for more than twenty years and treated more than two thousand patients. Now 90% of my patients are LD patients. I published a book “Lyme Disease and Modern Chinese Medicine” …