Buhner herbs

Hi quilty,
I would start on one herb...at low dose...and after a few days increase it...until you get to the dose.
Then start the second herb.

If you start all three at once, then you won't know if you have a reaction...or if you herx...which one it's from...and whether or not to continue to increase.

So, for example: Start with JK - 1 cap 3 X daily...after three/four days...increase to 2 caps 3 X daily...continue until you reach the full dose for you.
Then after three/four days on the full dose, add in the CC - start with 1 cap 3 X daily...etc....

Thank goodness - no broken bones!!

I am on Buhner's herbs. Second time - I discontinued them in July after I started my antibiotics...herxed for 12 days...and figured it was too much for me
I am back on them now...so far...so good.



Good luck!

We were unable to make it to the recommended dosages of any other Buhner's herbs without significant herxing, but are doing very well with 1/4 dosages. Each time we added a new herb we saw improvement and it didn't cause huge herxing. The only time we saw bad herxing was when I was pressing to reach the recommended dosages. I finally had to give up on that idea.

If I were you I would start at low (1/8 - 1/4 of recommended) dose with one herb for a week or so. If you are tolerating that, add the next herb at similar low dose and wait for a week or so to see if there is a herx. Then similarly add the next and so on. When you have the whole protocol going at a good low dosage, start increasing the dosage of each single herb one at a time and wait for a herx. If you have one, decrease that one herb back a little until the herx resolves. Then increase the next herb the same way.

The herbs work synergistically (that means their combined effect is greater than simply additive). Even low doses of a combination are probably more effective at addressing infection than high doses of just one or two. Julie assured me that even low doses of herbs in combination will not allow resistance to develop. Die-off will be slower and easier to handle, but die-off they will.

Low and slow is absolutely key. And definitely work on one herb to start with, and only add the second herb after you've gone through at least one Lyme cycle.

I didn't wait for that, and wound up in the hospital from the herx and a suspected allergic reaction (to Japanese Knotweed, a relative of buckwheat, and I'm allergic to buckwheat). Took 3 1/2 years to somewhat recover, only to crash again a couple years after that...still digging my way out of the second crash.

Low and slow is the only way to go with Buhner's herbs.