houttuynia powder from 1st chinese. dosage?

It's good to keep the concentration of herbal constituents consistent in the circulation, so we dose 3x daily.

1 tsp is far too much to start with if you have bartonella; if I were you I would start with 1/4 tsp per day (divided in 3) and stay at that dosage for a week or so. If you have no herx from that you can increase to 1/3 tsp per day (divided in 3), and so on...

Buhner says that herbs can be taken at the same time as abx and will actually make the abx more effective by decreasing the bacteria's ability to pump abx back out across the cell membrane. Many of his herbs contain these efflux pump inhibitors.

Extracting herbal constituents using different methods (ie. water infusion (tea), alcohol extraction (tincture), glycerine extraction (glycerite) and acid extraction (stomach acid)) make those constituents more bioavailable.

For this reason I always infuse our powdered herbs, giving us 2 extraction methods - water infusion and stomach acid. I infuse in this manner:

In the evening bring 1/2 c water to a boil and measure into a pyrex measuring cup. Measure all the herb (or herbs if you are using more than 1) for the next day into the cup with the water. In your case (using the decreased dosage of 1/4 tsp per day in the beginning), that would be 1/4 tsp houttuynia powder.

Cover and allow to cool overnight.

We dose herbs 3x daily (8am, 3pm, 9pm), so in the morning, stir the infusion and measure 1 and 1/4 oz of it (with suspended powder) into a shot glass. Pour this into a regular glass, add more water (and at that point we add our morning tinctures too), swirl to suspend the herbs and down it all. Chase with a pomegranate shooter. Yum!

Take another similarly prepared dose at 3pm and the remainder of the infusion at 9pm.

This makes it easier to divide lower doses of herbs (ie 1/4 tsp) into 3 fairly equal parts.

Glad to see you are adding some herbs. Japanese knotweed is very good for inflammation and is one we use consistently as well.

krissi said...
I just used cold water..... imaging that hot water will make it more bio avail. There is no risk that too hot water will destroy the herbs?

I did 1 tsp once a day for a week already and nothing really happens... so it its to much for me, i dont know.

Yes, don't boil the water with the herbs in it. That is a decoction and something altogether different. Buhner says that different constituents are extracted at different temperatures, so if you allow it to cool from hot to cold, you will be extracting a maximum amount of water soluble compounds.

Sounds like you are good at starting at a higher dosage. K reacted within 3 days to smaller amounts.

Although houttuynia is one of the main antimicrobial herbs in the bartonella protocol, it is not the only one.

I wouldn't dismiss bartonella before you try the whole protocol. The combination of houttuynia with the other herbs may produce results you don't see with houttuynia alone.

You may also have a lower bacterial load and require more in the range of the maximums that Buhner recommends. We haven't been able to get close.

We simply found that the more herbs we added, the greater the effects we saw.