Positives

• One patient said her arthritic Lyme symptoms were nearly gone within weeks of starting teasel root tincture and fully resolved at six months, calling it the herb that gave her her life back PMC.
  
  
• A patient reported the skin-crawling sensation she had lived with for years stopped after her very first dose of teasel PMC.
  
  

Negatives

• Some patients said teasel did nothing for them, and one who had been stable for a year suffered a horrible Lyme relapse triggered by an unrelated flu while still taking it PMC.
  
  
• Patients note teasel is not antimicrobial, so people relying on it as a sole therapy described disappointment when symptoms returned after stopping antibiotics PMC.
  
  

Hurdles & Side Effects

• Patients have to titrate one drop at a time starting at a single morning dose, a slow ramp some found impractical when symptoms were severe PMC.