Naturopathic care
Naturopathy for Lyme Disease and Chronic Illness
Naturopathy with a Lyme-literate naturopath means individualised herbal, nutritional and nutrigenomic support, designed to work alongside the care of your doctor rather than replace it. Amina Eastham-Hillier N.D has spent 30+ years in the health industry and has supported well over 8000 chronic cases (Lyme, stealth viral and bacterial co-infections, parasites and mould illness) across Australia and internationally. Her focus is the whole person: supporting your immune system, liver, adrenals, gut and nervous system while you work through a long and often complex illness, and helping your body cope with the load of a demanding medicine regime. Every consultation is online or by phone.
- Amina is a Lyme-literate naturopath, medical herbalist and nutritionist who has supported over 8000 chronic cases worldwide across 30+ years.
- Care is naturopathic SUPPORT designed to sit alongside your GP or specialist, never an alternative to medical treatment.
- Your program is built individually from herbal medicine, nutrition, nutritional supplements and, where useful, nutrigenomic gene testing.
- Consultations are online or by phone, so you can be supported from home no matter where in Australia you are.
What naturopathy with Amina involves
Naturopathy uses natural approaches to support health and wellbeing, looking at the body as a whole rather than treating symptoms in isolation. With chronic, stealth illness this matters, because the picture is rarely simple: immune depletion, gut disruption, nutrient shortfalls, poor detoxification capacity and an overloaded nervous system often sit underneath the symptoms you came in with.
Amina draws on three main areas of support: herbal medicine, nutritional medicine and nutrigenomics. Each program is built around you, your tolerance, your medications and where you are in your recovery, then adjusted at every consultation as your body changes.
Importantly, this work is designed to complement conventional medical care. Amina is glad to work alongside your doctor and other practitioners, and she will refer you on when she feels you need particular tests or a second opinion.
Herbal medicine
Herbal medicines are plant-based preparations made into tinctures, liquid medicines, tablets or powders, used to support the body for thousands of years. Amina holds over 300 medicinal herbs in her dispensary so that each prescription can be personally formulated for you.
Many people living with Lyme and its co-infections are highly sensitive, so dosages are kept individual and adjusted carefully consultation by consultation. Herbs commonly used in this kind of supportive formula include Astragalus, Cat's Claw, Sarsaparilla, Artemisia and Andrographis, chosen and combined for your particular picture rather than a one-size template.
- Personally formulated liquid, tablet or powder prescriptions
- Dosages modified to your tolerance and adjusted over time
- Australian Bush Flower Essences for emotional and physical support, especially gentle for children
Nutritional medicine and detoxification support
Nutrition is central to recovery. Amina reviews your diet in detail to help you eat in a way that is well balanced, minimises nutritional deficiencies and works around the new sensitivities that chronic illness so often brings, such as reactions to gluten, dairy, sugar, red meat, histamines, oxalates, salicylates or nightshades.
Most nutrition comes through food, but where there are genuine shortfalls (magnesium and manganese are common examples) professional nutritional supplements can be used to help restore balance.
Detoxification support is part of the picture too, introduced slowly and monitored according to where you are, so the body is helped to clear naturally without provoking an unprepared Herxheimer reaction.
Nutrigenomics and gene testing
For some people, understanding their genetics adds a useful layer. Amina holds a Diploma of Nutrigenomics and can arrange gene testing, including markers such as MTHFR, to help tailor nutritional support to how your body actually processes nutrients and methylation pathways.
This is one more way of making the program specific to you rather than generic, and it is always discussed and decided together in consultation.
The consultation, and working alongside your doctor
Your initial naturopathic consultation runs for one hour. Amina asks detailed questions about your presenting symptoms and concerns, documents a full symptomatic history and reviews past blood results if you have them, all to understand the underlying drivers of a weakened immune system rather than just the surface symptoms. A comprehensive questionnaire can be emailed to you when you book.
Where appropriate, Amina can discuss and arrange testing with you, including specific Lyme and stealth-infection testing, full blood and chemistry panels, stool analysis, hormone and thyroid testing, heavy-metal and mould assessments, and food-sensitivity testing.
Knowing your current medications, whether antibiotics, antidepressants, aspirin or blood-pressure medicine, is essential so your program stays safe and works in support of your medical treatment. This is naturopathic care to sit alongside your doctor, not a replacement for medical advice or treatment.
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