Herbal Proticol Advice

If you're using the Cowden Support Program, which I'm not sure even exists anymore, I believe they start you on the Banderol.

You'll want to start them one by one, so as to not induce severe herxing, as well as to know which ones are most effective.

I'd start with 1 drop of the Banderol, then maybe add in Samento once I'd hit 10 drops of it, etc.

Then, slowly increase all of them, as tolerated.

I don't know.

Best wishes!

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I'm sorry that no one else came around to offer recommendations. Well, RedEyedArab mirrored what I said, which is appreciated, but I expected another member to come along to provide more than I did.

I'm not able to be around as much, for one reason or another, so I'm not sure how the activity of our veteran members is.

Maybe it's just as simple as that, though? I mean, to me, it is. I've been at this for a few years now, I've used multiple different antimicrobial tinctures (as opposed to tinctures meant for supportive purposes).

It's the same thing, every time. You've got a set of tinctures. Start low and slow.

I'd start at 1 drop a day, increasing daily, until I felt something of a response.

Then, go from there.

Again, try introducing tincture #2 at 10 drops of #1, so as not to spend months titrating up.

Of course, if you're herxing badly, don't keep increasing. I just think some people really baby themselves when it comes to increasing. To each their own.

When I was doing Cowden's, I know that it went Banderol, Samento, Cumanda. Crypto-Plus is from a different protocol. I'm assuming you got prescribed it for suspected Babs or BLO? It's probably broad spectrum, too.

Unless I were REALLY hurting with the herxes, I'd probably throw the Crypto in second, so as to get to treating coinfections ASAP. Though, I'm not really an expert. I kinda just scrape by.

I'm better than I was, at least. Maybe, I'll be moderately healthy, someday?

Just keep plugging away.

I did the full cowden protocol. Each interval daily was a two drop increase. Cowden never says to reduce dosage, just to detox extra with burbur pinella. I don't agree with that, but everyone is different

Note sure if this is a repeat... but I think Cowden spaces Samento and Banderol apart. I think all you need to do is wait 20 minutes or so, not hours apart.

I'm in the 2nd month of Cowden Protocol now. The Samento and Banderol are on the same days, just at different times. The Banderol is 1st and 3rd dosage of the day and Samento is the 2nd and last dosage of the day, added along with the other herbs on the schedule.

The schedule that Girlie linked is the same booklet that came with my kit.

SapphireBaby - how's it going for you?

Hope you are experiencing some success with Cowden!

Thanks for asking. It's going pretty good I think. I didn't have any trouble getting to where I am as far as full dosages. However, I did have a bad reaction a few weeks ago. Maybe I wasn't detoxing enough. I don't know but there have been a few times where I just didn't feel right in my head and while driving at that. It's like there's no warning. That whole day I felt terrible. My blood pressure was up that night and I wasn't feeling well. It scared me enough that I woke my husband up in the middle of the night. So I just started doing the charcoal, got in the bath, kept taking the Burbur-Pinella until everything calmed down some. I stopped the herbs for a couple of days just to get my body adjusted but I'm back at it again.

So far, between the two, I feel like Banderol has had a little more of an effect on me immediately after taking it but nothing major. Well, except for that one episode.

I've started taking Houttuyina on my own. I believe it's around month 4 of the Cowden Protocol but I suspect Bartonella so I've began treating that ahead of time.