Started Houttuynia herb tea today!!!

Okay, yesterday, when i came home from work, three of my herbs arrived . Teasel root, Sweet Annie (these for my chronic tonic, i still need the Japanese Knotweed, i have all the others already). I also ordered the Houttuynia for my Bartonella, which arrived with the herbs mentioned above. Since i am still trying to find the Japanese Knotweed ( 1st chinese herbs is out of this herb right now), i started with the Houttuynia tea today. Four tablespoon in a cup of boiling water, drank it on a empty stomach this morning. Now i have a very mild heavy feeling on my eyes....herx, i have no idea. I don't even know if i need to add another herb to this tea...any suggestion?......Traveleeeeeer

Post Edited (Elmesanoya) : 9/26/2014 1:44:00 PM (GMT-6)

Thank you for the prompted reply. I know nothing of herbs and tea, since i never drank any...lol.... Yeah, i can tell i probably over did it because of the capital letters.. Lolol.
I always thought that herxing started the same day, but i also know that we all experience different symptoms at different time. Now i understand why when i suspected lyme, i was making cat's claw tea (from the bark) and for three days my body was shaking with an intense cold feeling. Everything felt cold, any warm breeze felt freezing. I did not relate that to herxing since i was ignorant to everything that involved a TBD. I over did that tea, too, i used to boil a 5" cat's claw bark and drink a cup in the morning an at night, i did this for maybe a week and stop right after the "herx".

Well, thank you for the heads up, i will sure expect "Mr. Herxheimer" to show up in a couple of days, maybe hours. I will definitely do some colonics to help my body with the detox. Thanks again....

Hi Elmesanoya,
I hope you are doing okay. Please feel free to email me any time you have any questions that you feel I can be of help with! I would have emailed you now, but you don't have your email listed with us. Please do extra detoxing for the next couple of days without using any more Houttuynia.

It might be a good idea to buy a small scale that you can weigh your herbs out. I never trust tablespoons (or whatever measurement like that) any more when dealing with herbs. I bought one like this: goo.gl/DvfEuU - although I do like to use Amazon Smile so that Amazon donates 0.5% of my purchase to a tick-borne disease charity that I chose.

This scale has a "tare" function - this is a real gem to have on a scale as you can set a measuring cup (or whatever) on it, hit "tare" and it will zero out again, so that you can get very accurate measurements. Be sure to get a scale that has gram measurements.

You will want only 3 grams of Houttuynia to 3 cups of water - which is an incredibly small amount, yet still it can pack a powerful punch!! I had to go down to using only 1.5 grams of Houttuynia and 3 cups of water for the first 3 weeks that I used it, due to herxing so badly! My practitioner was trying to get me to switch to something else - and I almost did! - but I knew that if I could just get past the initial herxing that it would be a good herb for me, so I increased detoxing (to the point that all I did all day was things to help me detox), and managed to squeak by.

about the Japanese Knotweed, I ordered mine from here:
www.kalyx.com/shopexd.asp?id=1224209 as they were the only ones that had that and neem leaf when I was ordering my herbs.

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And again, please feel free to email me if you have any questions/issues that you think I could help with. Even if you just wanted to chat about the Chronic Tonic or something.

I'll be watching for it!!

Awesome!!