Andrographis - loss of taste

I posted here a week or two ago about my loss of taste. I still don't have my sense of taste back but I'm pretty sure I know what caused it, and it wasn't a sinus infection. For one thing, I still have a very acute sense of smell.

I started taking Andrographis three weeks before I lost my taste. My sister (who may have Lyme but at least probably some other chronic infections, judging by her symptoms) started taking Andrographis a few weeks after I did. Earlier this week she lost her sense of taste and has the exact symptoms, salty taste, can't taste sugar, horrid sour taste in back of mouth. We counted back and she lost her sense of taste three weeks after taking Andrographis, just like I did. Neither of us has ever lost our taste like this. It's not just a dulling of taste, it's an extreme loss of taste. It seems obvious to me that the Andrographis must be what caused it. My sister and I live 2000 miles apart, so it's not like we could have caught the same virus or anything like that.

I just wondered if anyone here had this happen, and even if not, I wanted to post so if this happens to anyone, they might find this post. I did find some links where people were asking Stephen Buhner about loss of taste. He said it was either the Andrographis or the Japanese Knotweed.
buhnerhealinglyme.com/herbs/loss-of-taste/ I've been taking Japanese knotweed for about six months with no strange symptoms. It must be the Andrographis.

Post Edited (Manzanita2) : 12/1/2017 7:46:44 AM (GMT-7)

I also have a loss of taste and I am waiting to hear back from my naturopath. Did your taste come back after you stopped the andrographis?

I was taking andrographis twice a day for about a month when I lost my taste. It was profound. Not just a metallic taste. Food tasted like sawdust. I could hardly eat. I couldn’t taste sweet at all. Even water tasted weird. My sister started andrographis two weeks after me and also lost her taste after one month in the exact same way. When she lost her taste too, we realized it was something we were both taking and the only thing was andrographis. I had already stopped taking it though because I had stopped everything two weeks earlier because of chronic diarrhea. She stopped that day and as predicted, her taste came back two weeks after mine did. So we were pretty sure it was the andrographis. Neither of us has ever had anything like that happen to us, before or since. Btw, it took right around a month after discontinuing it for our taste to come back for both of us.

I guessing this doesn’t happen to many people because I’ve heard of so many people taking andrographis regularly. But I have read of a few people who this happened to. Maybe it’s a genetic thing. Everyone reacts differently to different drugs and herbs. I’ve read of some people who lost their taste from Japanese Knotweed but I’ve been taking that for nearly a year now with no problem.

missy_j78, I would love to do the Rawl’s program instead of all these tinctures and powders. But my loss of taste was so awful I couldn’t live with it. I was dropping weight rapidly. Not to mention how depressing it was to miss Thanksgiving dinner.

I’m doing the protocol without andrographis and seem to be making progress.

The same thing happened to me! exactly 3 weeks after taking Andrographis I have lost my sense of taste - everything tastes salty, bitter, unable to detect sweetness. I was devastated, as I had no idea what was the cause until reading this post. Just knowing that it is temporary as given me much relief.