Traveller & others Would You mind sharing chinese herbs and accupuncture pts

Traveller
sorry I was OCD'ing on the accupuncture points, no need for these as i realize its individual.

Just interested in the chinese herbs as i believe your post said that you had bart

Thank you so very much, Achievinggrace!!

So sorry for not having seen your post before this, Micheal - I've been a bit busy today and I'm not on the forum usually in the evenings - need to have some family time you know!

No problem about the acupuncture points, as you said - that is a very personal thing that will actually change at least some depending on exactly what area of your body is having the most issues each time you have acupuncture done. I have acupuncture every other week in order to keep up with everything. I once went three weeks and it felt like the longest three weeks!!! I just couldn't hardly wait until I could see my doc again!! LOL!!

I've only used one herb for my Bartonella treatment - Houttuynia. This is a very powerful herb though!! I got the whole leaf herb from my doc and she had me use only 3 grams of herb to 3 cups of boiling water steeped for only 10 minutes for a medicinal tea. It took me 3 full weeks to work up to that dose! I once accidentally allowed it to steep for 20 minutes and so I called my doc and she told me to throw it out as it would be way too much for me! So please, be very careful with this herb!

I have only used it for 6 months so far, but it has done a lot of good. I think I will have to use it again, but we think that my Babs infection was preventing any more healing from the Lyme and Bart infections - so we stopped the Lyme and Bart treatments as my doc didn't feel comfortable with me using the Babs treatment with the other two.

I didn't hesitate to share this here on the forum as the subject has been brought up several times now. I have also shared my Lyme treatment here, so I have no problems with that either.

Please feel free to contact me by email - well, everyone should! - if you would like to 'speak' with me off forum - that's why I have it listed! I've been so very ill with these infections for my whole life practically and there is hope out there!

To get started on the Houttuynia, I used the whole leaf herb that my practitioner provided. If you are taking HH capsules, I'm sure the process is different some simply because you are taking capsules and not drinking a medicinal tea.

If you are using the medicinal tea though, here is how I did it - I used 3 grams of herb to 4 cups of boiling water. I only drank 1 cup of the teat he first two days, then I drank two cups a day - at the reduced strength of 3 grams herb/4 cups water. I had to stay at that amount for 3 weeks as it was causing me to herx. After the three weeks, I was handling the treatment pretty well, so I went to using 3 grams of herb to 3 cups of water.

I hope this helps!

Right over my head!!! LOL id never be able to figure out grams and yada! Do you have a scale?

That's pretty close on the conversion from grams to teaspoons! I bought a kitchen scale for $8 and it has both sets of measurements, and I have a "postal scale" that I can use.

Okay so here are the symptoms that I was experiencing due to my Bart infection, and they have all improved some, but most have improved greatly:
Stiff legs; horrible, burning pain in the bottoms of my feet, especially in the morning; numbness in my hands; I have less headaches; I have less dizziness; less radicular pain (pain that runs along both sides of the spine); dry eyes; shin and rib bone pain; day sweats are gone; muscle pains down; my moods are more stable; I no longer find nodules under my skin; panic attacks are really down; cognitive issues are a lot less; and my lymph nodes aren't nearly as swollen or as often.

So when I herxed, I had all or some of those symptoms that I just listed make my life just that much more miserable. Depending on the day, I might have increased muscle pains, really stiff legs, a 3 or 4 day migraine, felt like I had sand in my eyes, and be very moody. The next day could be a completely different set of symptoms. Things always kept changing around - all but the headaches. It had been common for me to have a daily headache, some were really bad - migraine- and others were just a bad headache or just a nuisance headache.

After about 3 months of making and drinking my medicinal tea with Houttuynia, I began to really feel a difference.