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Posted 6/2/2016 9:29 PM (GMT -5)
I have been reviewing all the instructions for houttuynia and just want to clarify this. I have the cut herbs from the Chinese Herb place but I wanted to know do you use the herbs as is or crush the herbs in any way? When I got it I just assumed (don't know why)it needed to be crushed in some way.

Also, it was nice to know I wasn't the only one who got dizzy with starting this. I think it is a symptom of too strong of dose. It does seem like it is helping other than that. For those who have had a hard time starting with the cut herbs (I believe are much stronger),I used the tincture to start (1 to 3 drops) then increased and when that didn't seem to affect me much anymore started the herbs. Worked very well, and like the price tag on the cut herbs LOL. One bag goes a long, long way.

Also this is me just venting. Not fair Bartonella for making me gain weight-you cause enough problems but that is just mean. smilewinkgrin
Posted 6/3/2016 2:07 AM (GMT -5)
I am only using the tincture of houttuynia so I am not the most well versed on the other ways to use the whole herb but my post will *BUMP* this to the top of the page so others can see & respond :-)

-Courtney
Posted 6/3/2016 9:10 AM (GMT -5)
I have no idea how the tea would taste, I imagine horrible.

I think if you are not going to use the whole herb to make a tincture, then yes, you need to powder it up and put it in capsules.

Careful when you are powdering it, you can inhale some of the powder and that breathed powder, along with your dose, could be more than you can handle and a herx would result.
Posted 6/3/2016 9:38 AM (GMT -5)
You can use the whole herb to make an infusion, but you will have to go by weight per dosage because you can't measure it otherwise. Trav has done this.

We used the ground herb for infusion and you can measure this by the tsp. If you want you can grind your whole leaves.

For both, weigh or measure the amount you want and add to boiled water. Cover and let cool (the cooling process extracts more components than would drinking it hot) and drink.

As PeteZa says, you can also put the ground herbs in a capsule, but you will get tired to taking capsules very shortly.

The infusion doesn't taste too bad. It won't make you gag like I find BioSil does (Yuck!). Don't sip, just chug it back.

I make our infusions by adding 1 tsp dried herb to 1/2 cup boiled water. Cover and let sit until cool (I make it at night and let it cool in the fridge). Because we are only dosing 2x daily now, I stir and measure 1/4 cup into a glass in the morning, add more water and chug it back. Same goes for the evening dose. In that way we get 1/2 tsp in the am and 1/2 tsp in the pm.

You can add multiple herbs to the same infusion while making it in the evening, and you can add your tinctures to the 1/4 cup before drinking am and pm.

If you want to dose 3x daily, measure out 1 and 1/4 oz (with a shot glass) of the 1/2 cup infusion in the morning, 1 and 1/4 oz of it in the afternoon, and then the rest before bed.

Houttuynia caused herx reactions for both K and myself, especially panic attacks and palpitations, when I got the dosage too high. If this happens, decrease the dosage back to the point where you aren't herxing any more and stay there for a couple of weeks before trying to increase the dosage again.

You will still be killing bacteria, but now at a rate where your body can handle the die-off.
Posted 6/3/2016 11:34 AM (GMT -5)
Actually, the taste of the tea is quite pleasant - kind of like a nice oolong used to make iced tea for most people.

I have used cut Houttuynia as a tea to heal the first time and I'm using it again because it worked so well for me.

I went into detail in this thread about how I was told to make the medicinal tea with Houttuynia:
www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=2887463
Posted 6/3/2016 12:28 PM (GMT -5)
Thank you all, I appreciate it. I have been crushing the cut herb and it has been working quite nicely. I don't have the scale yet, so I am using about one teaspoon crushed herb (for others-do not recommend this as is not very precise) I would listen to Travelers. She knows all-LOL. She has given me better advise than anyone including my doctors!! Thanks Traveler!! Bless your heart for helping the rest of us!
By the way, I was only crushing it because I thought maybe we needed to get the herb available, and I bought a real cute marble crushing bowl. Anyway sounds like I don't need to. Thanks again.
Posted 6/3/2016 12:29 PM (GMT -5)
Oh my!! "I would listen to Travelers. She knows all-LOL." smhair don't say that!! LOL! I don't know enough!!

But thank you so much for your kind words. I hope you find Houttuynia to be as helpful as I did!!
Posted 6/3/2016 12:36 PM (GMT -5)
Hmm I wonder if the crushed herb isn't as potent as cut herb? Maybe that is why I am able to use in larger amounts now? Still get some herx though.
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