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Review of Parasites and Their Treatments: Parasite Detox & Parasite Cleanse Guide

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Review of Parasites and their Treatments: Parasite Detox and Parasite Cleanse Guide

How to safely and effectively get rid of parasites
DR. ASCENSION’S HEALTH HUB
Dec 14, 2023

Disclaimer: I am a physician for 25+ years, and I’ve worked on establishing clinical practice guidelines for numerous healthcare entities (insurers and hospitals) as part of my career. Having said that, I’m not your personal physician. I believe that each person deserves personalized care based on their symptoms, test results, presence or absence of risk factors associated with parasites, diet and lifestyle, personal & family history, etc. This post is to provide you with the necessary information about 2 types of parasites: protozoa and helminths (worms). Compared to many countries who have many risk factors, including their environment and contaminated food/water supplies, the US nearly does not have the number of parasitic infections than they do. However, recent surge of illnesses, rise in inflammatory bowel disease and auto-immune disorders, association of parasites with cancers, and the fact that COVID was treatable by anti-parasitic drugs, people are reevaluating whether ‘parasites’ are a real problem in the US as well. For this reason, the information provided below, should help one evaluate their own risk so that they can determine the need for treatment and/or a cleanse, with their physician’s guidance. Please keep in mind the following:

  1. While i’ve tried to make it a thorough review, there are numerous parasites. There maybe some missing, either because they don’t infect humans, or there were no recommended treatments found for them. Feel free to add comments if I missed any that you want more information on.
  2. This review does not cover fungal infections or viral infections. Many viruses are known to cause cancers as well, such as, EBV, HPV, HCV, etc. They have their own treatment protocols.
  3. I’ve included recommended treatments based on review of multiple sources. If there is new evidence that supports the use of a drug for a parasite that I have not listed, feel free to add in comments, so I can review the study and add to the recommendations.

What are Parasites?

Parasites require a host to survive and spread. The adult forms of parasites live and feed from within the host (animals, humans). The eggs and larvae are what ‘spread’ through various means (food, water, flies, bugs and mosquitos). Most parasites, go undetected, and people are ‘asymptomatic’ because the parasite does not disturb the environment. Sometimes, there are slight symptomatic changes, but the person doesn’t think of them as worm related. For example, feeling more hungry, desiring more sweet foods, bloating or indigestion, abdominal discomfort or pain if you don’t eat, and general fatigue and malaise. These maybe signals sent by the parasite, so you take the actions that benefit them, i.e. survive, and have a constant source of food.

General To-Do’s and Not-To-Do’s about Parasites

Here are some To-Do’s:

  • Vitamin rich foods or supplements:
    • Carrots, sweet potatoes, and squash are high in beta-carotene, which turns into Vitamin A, which helps to resist parasitic worms and larvae.
    • Eat foods rich in Vitamins C & B
      • B12 is depleted by many worms
      • Folic acid (Vitamin B9) also depletes from malabsorption due to worms
  • Minerals such Selenium and Zinc: Selenium and Zinc are required for immune function and resistance to infection
  • Include more garlic in your meals: raw garlic has sulfur containing amino acids that are anti-parasitic
  • Ensure you have “good” bacteria in your gut by taking probiotics or eating probiotic rich foods like yogurt. (see below regarding probiotics used for natural treatment and prevention of parasites)
  • Perform ‘gut cleansing’, such as with psyllium, beetroot, flaxseeds or supplements containing Senna
  • Wash all foods well, including vegetables and fruits, prior to use

Here are some Not-To-Do’s:

  • Don’t eat raw or undercooked meats, fish, crustaceans, and snails
  • Avoid coming in contact with any animal feces or saliva, including from pets
  • Avoid coffee, sugar, alcohol, and refined grains

More information on natural prevention and treatments is provided later.

Anti-Parasitic Treatments

Parasites can be treated both naturally and with anti-parasitic medications. Natural herbs and supplements can help maintain an internal environment that prevents parasitic infections in the first place. Some herbs and supplements however, do directly reduce adult worms and egg count. But the effectiveness rate is not as high as anti-parasitic medications that have very targeted mechanism of action. More on natural treatments later.

You are likely to come across Ivermectin, Fenbendazole, Doxycycline and others drugs as treatments. Febendazole is a benzimidazole, and is just one of many other benzimidazoles available, such as albendazole, parbendazole, mebendazole, flubendazole, etc. It is a common practice for drug manufacturers to make different compounds under the same class of drugs, and those products are used in different markets and for different purposes such as animal vs. human use. Fenbendazole is used with animals and majority of data and studies on this drug are from animal studies. So while fenbendazole and albendazole are the same class of drugs, albendazole is a product recommended for use in humans but requires prescription, whereas fenbendazole is over the counter for animal use. What matters most is whether fenbendazole and albendazole have the same level of efficacy. Based on a review of many comparative studies, the efficacies vary based on parasite type. One was superior than the other in each study, but all were animal models. Efficacy studies on humans are available for albendazole, mebendazole, flubendazole, triclabendazole etc. Below, when discussing each parasite and treatment, you will notice that albendazole was recommended as ‘drug of choice’ for many parasites due to higher efficacy, compared to mebendazole, flubendazole and other benzimidazoles. Therefore, these drugs do not all work equally in terms of efficacy.

My review below is based on studied, recommended and approved drugs for the treatment of each parasite in humans. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

A wonderfully thorough article.

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Parasites, Treatment

Tools, Hope, & Healing in Lyme Disease: Dr. Joseph Jemsek

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Tools, Hope & Healing in Lyme Disease with Dr. Joseph Jemsek

Mar 24, 2026
A webinar and Q&A on tools, hope and healing for those affected by Lyme disease with special guest Dr. Joseph Jemsek.
Sponsored by the National Lottery Community Fund and facilitated by Lyme Disease UK Patient Ambassador Morven-May MacCallum.
Joseph Jemsek, MD, trained as an infectious disease specialist and dedicated the first 20 years of his practice to patients with HIV/AIDS. In the early 2000s, an influx of patients from all over the United States started flooding his practice, the Jemsek Clinic, complaining of chronic symptoms of Lyme disease. This was the start of an unexpected new chapter that would change the course of Lyme disease treatment and of Dr. Jemsek’s own life. Dr. Jemsek evaluated over 15,000 cases of Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses and introduced dozens of pioneering treatment innovations.
You may sign up for Dr. Jemsek’s newsletter, Choose Life Over Lyme!, where he’ll be sharing twenty-five years of insights from his work decoding Lyme disease, at ChooseLifeOverLyme.com
You can access his guide Self-Help Tools to Manage Lyme Borreliosis Complex co-created with Lyme Disease UK here: lymediseaseuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Self-Help-Tools-2026-.pdf
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**Comment**
Highly recommend!  Dr. Jemsek is not treating patients anymore but his expertise is phenomenal.  He was also persecuted for prescribing long term antibiotics to treat chronic Lyme by the North Carolina Medical Board which restricted his medical license, but was vindicated. You won’t regret the time you spend watching this.
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Best Herbal Antibiotic Plans for Lyme, Bartonella, and Babesia

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Best Herbal Antibiotic Plans for Lyme, Bartonella, and Babesia

By Dr. Marty Ross

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Updated: January 24, 2025

Science Meets Buhner for Best Herbal Antibiotic Options

History Speaks

Historically, most herbal antibiotic regimens for used tick-borne infections are based on the writings and experience of master herbalist Stephen Buhner. His work is science related. However, most of the herbal antibiotics he recommends do not have actual studies showing they work in the lab or in humans for killing specific tick-borne infections. For instance, he recommends Andrographis to kill Borrelia based on science showing it kills another spirochete called Leptospirosis. And Buhner recommends Sida Acuta to address Babesia because it is used as an antimalarial, even though there is no research showing it works for Babesia.

Buhner’s writings occurred before the discovery of persister Borrelia (Lyme) and Bartonella which I describe below. So, his writings did not specifically address how to deal with these hibernation forms of germs.

Enter Science

Over the last few years, researchers are rushing to find new ways to kill the terrible Bs (Borrelia, Bartonella, and Babesia). Some of the interest in looking at herbal medicine options is the discovery of hibernating persister growth states of Borrelia and Bartonella that do not respond to classic herbal medicines or prescription regimens that target growing states of these germs. Out of this laboratory work, we now know that Buhner’s Andrographis does not work against Borrelia, but many other agents do.

In 2023 Shor and Schweig published their review of newer laboratory studies showing which herbal medicines work in the lab to kill the growing, persister, and biofilm states of Borrelia and Bartonella. This work also reveals numerous agents that can kill Babesia. Table 1. below is drawn from the Shor-Schwieg article. My table is more limited than the one published in their paper but focuses on what I have found clinically to be the most relevant herbal antibiotics.

Table 1. Herbal Antibiotic Actions

How to Interpret Table 1
  • About G P B. Borrelia and Bartonella exist in growing states, hibernation states, and biofilm communities. The growing states are also called active states. The hibernators are also called persisters or stationary states. Biofilms are mostly known as biofilms. I prefer to use the terms growing (G), persister (P) and biofilms (B) while Shor and Schweig refer to active, stationary, and biofilm states. Keep this in mind if you review their article and more extensive table.
  • About Blank. In some instances, a blank space in the table means the research did not look to see if an herbal agent actually addresses the identified problem. For instance, Zhang and colleagues showed that cinnamon, clove, and oregano oils kill Borrelia biofilms, but their research did not look at whether these herbal oils help Bartonella biofilm. Given the similarity of biofilm structures, cinnamon, clove and oregano oils may actually be good agents against Bartonella biofilms.
  • About Sida Acuta and Houttuynia. Buhner recommends Sida Acuta and Houttuynia to address Bartonella. He also recommends Sida Acuta for Babesia. These key herbal antibiotics are not included in my table or the work of Shor-Schweig because there was no research conducted looking at these agents. This does not mean they do not work, but based on science, we do not know.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

The article gives numerous treatment options for each pathogen.  We can be extremely thankful to have all of this information in an easy to find and use format which is supported by science.

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Babesia, Bartonella, Herbs, Lyme, research, Treatment

Babesiosis Study Paves Way For Better Treatment

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Babesiosis study paves way for better treatment

By Maya Brownstein

Illustration of a tick

Babesiosis, a disease transmitted to humans by the same ticks that carry Lyme disease, is an emerging threat, particularly for individuals who are immunocompromised. In a new study, researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health identified how Babesia divergens—one of the parasites that causes babesiosis—spreads in the human body to cause infection. The findings suggest a path for the development of more effective drugs to treat the disease.

The study was published Jan. 27 in Nature Microbiology. Manoj Duraisingh, John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, was corresponding author.

According to Duraisingh, babesiosis is “exploding” in the northeast U.S., and there are limited treatments to combat it. Some people who are infected are asymptomatic; others have flu-like symptoms. In healthy individuals, babesiosis typically resolves on its own. But elderly patients and those with weakened immune systems can experience severe disease with potentially fatal complications.

To learn more, the researchers examined Babesia divergens in the lab. They developed and optimized genetic tools, such as CRISPR, to study on a molecular level how Babesia divergens spreads from one infected cell to the next, to ultimately cause disease in humans.

The researchers discovered that Babesia divergens relies on four essential proteins to spread. They then validated drug compounds that block these proteins and stop parasite growth.

“This is the first detailed, genetically validated map of egress in Babesia divergens,” Duraisingh said. “We have now druggable targets in babesia parasites. This creates a clear path toward better therapies.”

Read the study:

Babesia divergens host cell egress is mediated by essential and druggable kinases and proteases

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COVID Shot Stroke Cover-Up And A Public Message to Anthony Fauci

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BREAKING: Biden White House COVID Stroke Cover-Up Exposed

A Pattern of Institutional Deception Finally Revealed in Stunning New Email Revelations
Sayer Ji
Mar 25, 2026

Newly released government documents confirm that Biden White House officials directly edited CDC messaging on COVID-19 vaccine safety in January 2023 — changing the description of a stroke risk signal in elderly Americans from “moderately elevated” to “slightly elevated,” removing the words “potential risk” entirely, and instructing health officials they “don’t want to see this document again.”

All of this happened while the same administration was aggressively pushing booster uptake in the very age group affected, and while its Surgeon General was publicly accusing independent health researchers of spreading harmful disinformation for raising the exact safety questions officials were quietly suppressing internally.

This is not a hypothetical scandal. It is documented. And for those of us who lived through the coordinated destruction of our platforms, our reputations, and our livelihoods for asking these questions in public, it is a confirmation that arrives with the full weight of vindication — and the full fury of unresolved injustice.

I was one of those researchers. And this story lands differently when you have been named a public enemy for telling the truth the government was simultaneously editing into silence.  (See link for Ji’s exposé on a purposeful bureaucratic editorial operation)

Also see:  https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/silent-strokes-biden-officials-buried?
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A Public Message to Anthony Fauci

Let Me Help You Remember What Went Wrong.
James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
Mar 25, 2026

In what can only be described as a New York Times public image rehabilitation attempt, former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci comes across as a Pontius Pilate – his hands washed of any responsibility for his central role as a, if not the primary, driver of public health policies that nearly destroyed the United States of America.

Dr. Fauci, we remember. We ALL remember. Here is my message to help YOU remember. Let’s start with how you helped the Biden administration threaten ALL of our jobs, but the article does not mention that. It does not mention your central role in the lockdown – in fact,

you flatly deny that your actions or policies led to any school closings or factories shut down. How is it that governors across the U.S. decided “essential” and “non-essential” businesses, and you stood by and never protested?

In August 2020 you said publicly: “If someone refuses the vaccine in the general public, then there’s nothing you can do about that. You cannot force someone to take a vaccine.” Then on September 10, 2021 — the day after Biden announced the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard covering ~80–100 million workers — you told PBS: “I myself am quite favorably impressed by that and feel strongly that that is what we should be doing.” On November 4, 2021, testifying before the Senate HELP Committee, when Sen. Romney asked directly whether mandates would save lives, you said: “We know that vaccines absolutely save lives. And we know that mandates work.”

Also on record in a Michael Specter audiobook, Summer 2021: “It’s been proven that when you make it difficult for people in their lives, they lose their ideological bullshit, and they get vaccinated.” It was played back to you at the June 2024 hearing. You did not retract it.

The mandate had no testing option for federal workers or healthcare workers — it was vaccinate or lose your job. You were the Chief Medical Advisor sitting in the White House at the time. You did not object.

We all remember, also, your key role as a driver of the lockdown.

  • You sent Dr. Clifford Lane — your NIAID deputy — to China with the WHO Joint Mission in February 2020
  • Lane returned and wrote: “China has demonstrated this infection can be controlled, albeit at great cost. This is the bottom line.”
  • Lane told you directly: “From what I saw in China, we may have to go to as extreme a degree of social distancing to help bring our outbreak under control”
  • You testified he had “every reason to believe” Lane’s evaluation
  • You then admitted: social distancing “even by somewhat difficult means” involving “essentially the entire community” was possible in the U.S.

Your methodological problems:

  1. Lane visited after China had already locked down — he could only observe what was happening, not whether the lockdown caused the decline
  2. Chinese data was demonstrably unreliable — WHO had tailored confidentiality forms “to China’s terms” (FOIA-obtained emails, Judicial Watch, March 2021) and a January 2020 WHO epidemiological analysis was marked “strictly confidential”
  3. The WHO-China Joint Mission report itself was controlled: all activities were “arranged by the Chinese Government’s National Health Commission” (per a Feb. 15, 2020 internal WHO email)

(See link for Weiler’s chronology all things fraudulently Fauci)

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**Comment**

It’s beyond time for vindication of those who were right all along, and accountability for those who pushed unscientific, fraudulent, and dangerous COVID measures that were ineffective and even deadly.

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