Mcas and herbs

People with MCAS can react to anything - herbs, drugs, die-off endotoxins, temperatures, cardiovascular exercise, essential oils, foods, any environmental particulate, body and cleaning products, etc. so there's nothing especially MCAS-aggravating about herbs on the whole. Herbs are a very diverse category! Some raise histamine and should be avoided with MCAS, some stabilize mast cells and can treat MCAS very effectively, and some are going to bother certain people but not others. Antimicrobial herbs kill off microbes and therefore cause MCAS flares due to herxing. Do you know if the LLMD meant supportive herbs or antimicrobial herbs? Some providers I have seen started our first appointments with drastically paring down my supplements list. My guess is that your provider didn't want your system overloaded with things you are trying, so that your body would not be in a state of stress when you begin the treatment they think is best for your individual case. Some LLMDs want to stabilize patients - detox, liver and kidney function, inflammation, MCAS all under control - before starting antimicrobial treatment, so that patients will tolerate treatment better and make more progress in less time. I hope you like this LLMD!