Prevalent on 6 continents

Lyme disease, known as Borreliosis in much of the world, is prevalent on 6 continents and recognized as an epidemic in many countries. Pentacyclic Alkaloid Chemotype Uncaria tomentosa has been available to the public in Bulgaria, where a high incidence of Lyme disease exists, since January 2001. Within 2 months it became the most widely sold natural medicine in that country. Dr. Atanas Tzonkov, director of Bulgaria’s largest private medical clinic, has treated thousands of patients with Samento. He reports that it has been used successfully to treat over 100 conditions. A possible theory is that most of these conditions were actually misdiagnosed Lyme disease or Lyme disease was a component of the illnesses that the patient was suffering from.

The following are links to citations of medical and scientific articles from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM) MEDLINE database. In most cases the number of citations has doubled in the past two years, and in some countries the number has increased four fold.

The following selected search results for Lyme disease, with number of citations, are current as of July 14, 2003:

Total 7687

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Africa 49

Asia 167

Australia 43

Europe 1242

South_America 29

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Baltic States 16

Eastern Europe 279

Far East 125

Middle East 13

Scandanavia 101

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Austria 195

Belgium 69

Brazil 29

Bulgaria 11

Canada 159

Chile 10

China 74

Croatia 20

Czech Republic 103

Denmark 123

France 352

Germany 1115

Hungary 24

Ireland 35

Israel 31

Italy 192

Japan 211

Mexico 17

Netherlands 370

Norway 58

Poland 174

Romania 11

Russia 197

Slovakia 26

Slovenia 74

Spain 171

Sweden 281

Switzerland 267

Taiwan 16

United_Kingdom 852

U.S.A. 4075

Yugoslavia 108