Does Gou-teng make you herx (Chinese cats claw)

I started with one drop of gou-teng just to see my how I would react to it. So far nothing major. Would it be too Far of a jump to do 1/4 tsp? Or will it make me herx? Buhner recommends 1/2-1 tsp 3 to 6x daily as a max dose. I wanted to hear peoples experiences on what they started with.

You started at 10 drops 4x a day? Like that was your first dose?

Yep. I am only moderately sensitive to herbs.

I get very strong reactions to some of the strong antimicrobials like sida, cryptolepis etc but not so much to the mainly anti inflammatory and immune modulating ones like knotweed etc.
For me gou teng is in the second group.

I think it is helping me a bit with cns symptoms. Along with skullcap and kudzu.
But not a miracle.

For me the herbs have been a slow burn type thing helping move the needle slowly over time and alongside other things.

hello bro, it has a calming effect for me.