Your opinion on this herb combination

I have just started to look into herb supplements to treat Lyme and my co-infections. Most grateful for your recommendations in other posts.

While looking for herbs on the internet I found "Source Naturals Wellness Formula", and as I looked at its ingredients, I immediately recognized most of them from this board. I would appreciate your opinion on whether you would recommend it, specially for someone like me who is medicine sensitive and who will have to start herbs at a low dosage. I also have limited monetary resources, so buying all of these herbs in one bottle will save me a ton of money. Of course, I will also add Cat's Claw and Japanese Knotweed to the mix.

The herbs, vitamins, and minerals in the formula are:

echinacea purpurea root extract 355mg
boneset 238mg,
andrographis 225mg, 10% andrographolides
polygonatum odoratum rhizone 200mg
olive leaf extract 200mg
eleuthero root extract 136mg
mullein leaf 135mg
propolis extract 126mg
isatis root & leaf 102mg
horehound 100mg
ginger root 90mg
angelica root extract 66mg
elderberry fruit extract 60mg
astragalus root 54mg
pau d'arco bark extract 33mg
cayenne fruit 30mg
grape seed extract 15mg proanthodyn
isatis root extract 11mg
mullein leaf extract 10mg
vitamin A 5000iu
vitamin C 1290mg
vitamin D3 400iu
zinc 23mg
selenuim 60mg
copper 300mg
sodium 15mg
garlic bulb 360mg

I don't know about this product, but I too am sensitive to certain medicines and even herbs. I was taking an adrenal support that gave me insomnia...it was probably the Siberian ginseng from the list of five ingredients so I stopped taking it and symptoms stopped. Just be careful with products with multiple ingredients, because figuring out what is causing a side effect will be harder. I found products with a few ingredients mixed to save money, such as omega with vitamin d in it. Good luck!

Try one bottle, see if it helps?

I would also research the dosages. Who knows if the dosages are high enough to make any difference.

I'll give you a little bit of help there.
-I take pau d'arco 1000mg 2-3x a day. Compare that to the 33mg of pau d'arco there.
-This 12oz bottle of ginger brew I am drinking right now was brewed with 26g (26000mg) of ginger. Compared to 90mg in that pill.
-I take at least 5,000IU of vitamin D per day. Compared to 400mg in that product you listed.
-1,290mg (1.29g) of vitamin C is a decent amount actually, but of course you can take much more.
-Buhner's recommendation for astragalus is 1,000mg per day (not to be used in chronic lyme) -- compared to 54mg in that product.


Now, in combination, the herbs/vitamins/minerals may work better at lower dosages. But I still don't know if they will be enough to help much. Maybe, maybe not. But you have to see why they can put all those ingredients into one product at a low cost. Because they are putting much, much less of those ingredients. And most of these ingredients have a certain threshold where they start helping. I'm willing to bet the minimum helpful dosages are quite a bit higher than the ones listed in this product, for most people and most situations.

I would still try one bottle (after doing a bit more research to make sure everything in there is ok...)

Post Edited (skBM) : 9/21/2013 12:50:55 PM (GMT-6)

Thank you everyone for your input. SkBM, than you for sharing the dose that you take. That is what I was hoping that someone would share. I know the herbs are what folks use here because I recognized the names but was unsure if the dose was low.

I did buy the bottle and have taken two pills. I don't see any effects from it, other than it made me relaxed 10 minutes after I took it. The effect is similar to what I feel with magnesium and it only lasted for a few minutes.