One of the challenges I faced early on in my Lyme Disease treatment was working out which Doug Coil frequencies to use. There are literally thousands of frequencies listed in a crowd-sourced document known as the Consolidated Annotated Frequency List (CAFL). These frequencies reportedly treat everything from earache to knee pain. The problem we have is that there is no distinction between the type of machine or the methodology it comes under.
A Doug Coil and the associated methodology varies wildly from certain contact devices, for example. From the outside they can appear to be similar, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. A Doug Coil relies on the scientific principle of resonance. In simple terms, we use a very strong magnetic field at a certain frequency to disrupt the cell wall of bacteria, causing it to die. This is a well-understood and widely used scientific principle. (Glenn, who manufactures our ESP101, is an aerospace engineer and has worked with this principle throughout his career working on satellites.)
Coiling for Lyme Symptoms
Unfortunately, you cannot coil for the symptoms of Lyme. Whilst it can be tempting to try to find a frequency for neck pain, joint pain or headaches, it’s important to remember that the cause of that pain is the Lyme infection. Remove the cause and the symptoms go away. Additionally, the coil machine works by physically disrupting the bacterial cell wall. Pain is chemical – it’s the result of neurotransmitters in the brain. Therefore, you can’t coil for pain.
One of the benefits of a Doug Coil is that we can really focus in on how to use it as the way it works is so well understood. Hence, I don’t recommend using the CAFL as a resource for Doug Coil frequencies. When Doug MacLean originally started experimenting with a coil he observed certain frequencies working under a microscope, and we choose to use those frequencies in our protocol.
How To Begin
Over the last two years of my Lyme Disease treatment, working with users of the ESP101 and running our free drop in sessions we’ve learnt an awful lot and honed our protocol.
The main lesson we’ve learnt is that early treatment needs to differ from late treatment. In early treatment the focus is on reducing the overall bacterial load. This is because the body is generally so overwhelmed with the infection that all bodily processes are compromised. Gradually reducing the bacterial load allows the immune system to begin fighting once more. Here we advocate the use of one frequency at a time, for increasing lengths of time until the herx becomes negligible. Then you move onto another frequency.
There are a collection of 6 frequencies we use in early treatment. The reason we have chosen these frequencies is that they generally work for the vast majority of people. They also represent a good range of frequencies.
In late treatment the approach needs to be different. By ‘late treatment’ I’m referring to the 12-18 month mark where your symptoms are greatly reduced and you’re beginning to live something that resembles a normal life again. There are usually some lingering symptoms and you may occasionally still experience flares. However, on the whole, you’re feeling a lot better. When you reach this stage, it’s time to switch it up a little! Instead of weekly or fortnightly sessions for a long session, you’re going to start doing shorter, more varied treatment sessions, twice a day for 4 days, followed by a 4 day break.
Late treatment is about cleaning up the remnants of infection in your body. Therefore, we hit it from multiple angles. This isn’t possible in early treatment as the herx is often too severe. During late treatment, the herx you will experience will be milder and much more manageable, meaning you can push through for a 4 days. However, as always, you are the one who knows your body. You should shorten or lengthen the treatment depending on your own reaction to it.
A Note on Drop In Sessions
If you’re one of our lovely users who come along to our drop in sessions, you’ll probably notice that we tend to run 2-3 different frequencies with you instead of following our early/late protocol. This is because we want to give you the most treatment you can handle in one go, as you don’t have a machine at home.
Early vs Late Treatment
The Doug Coil Frequencies
Remember
You are your own practitioner, and you should always stop treatment at the point at which a herx becomes too much. You should never treat whilst in the throes of a herx. Late treatment is about many shorter sessions over a course of days until a moderate herx is achieved.
What frequencies do you use? Have you tried any not listed above? I’d love to hear from you – let me know in the comments below!
