How Herbs Treat Lyme Disease

Research reveals how herbal treatments can succeed where antibiotics fail

This high performing plant is the West African shrub, Cryptolepis sanguinolenta, best known in traditional Ghanaian medicine for treatment of malaria. nomadkate/Shutterstock

Every few years, a new disease grabs all the headlines. Meanwhile, millions suffer from a potentially deadly and disabling infection that receives little attention.

As many as 400,000 new cases of Lyme disease occur in the United States each year, according to 2018 statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—more than 10 times the number of annual diagnoses of HIV/AIDS.