Oxalate in herbs?

Does anyone have a source to find oxalate content in Lyme herbs? I’m not finding any info on it. I think oxalate may be contributing to my lack of progress, so I’m gradually starting to go low oxalate.
I take my herbs as powders mixed in water. I’m pretty sure tinctures are low oxalate simply because the plant matter isn’t present. But I don’t tolerate much alcohol and glycerites are a pain to make. So I’d like to make as few changes as needed to maintain a low oxalate diet.

I do not know of any sources.

You could do what i do.

Use tinctures but evaporate the alcohol off by using a small warming mat - that each dose is placed on for a few hrs before taking.

it is time consuming

but for me its approx 4x cheaper to make my own from bulk herbs vs buying the tincture - and i make several - so the cost saving is substantial

i applied for a licence to buy 96% ethanol duty free ( allowed in many countries if used for medicinal purposes - including herbal medicine ) - which makes the exercise more affordable also

The one herb I can find data on is houtynnia- 3204mg/100g. At the dose I take I’m getting over 90mg per day from that herb alone. Safe levels are 50-150mg total intake per day. So maybe just cutting that herb will be significant.

Rampage said...

What book or guide would you recommend to a newb for making tinctures?

Buhner's lyme books tend to have pretty good info in them regarding the herbs, the tincture ratios and what alcohol content is needed

everything after that is general tincture making / not specific to lyme herbs

main principles are:
1, use as finely divided herbs as possible ( powder or use blender if cut herb is all that is available ) - greater surface area results in greater extraction

2, keep them somewhere cool and dark for the time the herbs are soaking in the menstruum ( liquid)
shake vigorously to mix the in-process tinctures daily

3, allow 4 weeks before straining the tincture

4, use only fine undyed cotton cloth to strain the tincture ( avoid microplastics, dyes etc from synthetics)

5, keep finished tinctures in brown bottles or in the dark - in a cool place ( light degrades many active components )

there are probably good youtube videos on making tinctures also - but i have not looked
just be a bit wary as some people seem misinformed on things like alcohol ratios, doses etc - so i would stick with Buhner for that.

hope its of some help

If you are on Facebook there is the Trying Low Oxalate group and then under that a spreadsheet group. I just downloaded the PDF version of the spreadsheet and it is 300 pages long. So they have a lot of stuff that has been tested. I am not sure about herbs though.

While this wont help you with the spreadsheet the TLO group has a YouTube channel. If you are interested in the oxalate topic. Thankfully there is a "show transcript" button so it doesn't take so much time to get through a video.

https://www.youtube.com/@WizardsofOx/featured

GoatLady said...
Moose- thanks for the podcast link. It was helpful, apparently she says you should quit supplements. Not sure if I agree. Did you take any herbs? Did you have to
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I did do herbs for some years like cats claw and others. Didnt make any difference. Going the middle way was the remedy for me, dont overdo anything, avoid anything toxic and let the immune system slowly take care of the healing, with a rate of a few percent better every year..