How to add Sida, Alchornea, and Cryptolepis

My sister has just completed two weeks on the Buhner core protocol, and we just reached 7 drops (2x/day) on Cowden's Houttuynia. Right now, I was thinking about adding Sida, Alchornea, and Cryptolepis, but I'm not sure how to go about doing it. I know I'm supposed to go slow, so I'm assuming I should just start with one of them like Sida, and slowly increase it?? And then, one by one, add the other two?? Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated. For what it's worth, I'm most concerned about her neuro symptoms. She still has a lot of noise (buzzing/humming) in her neck, ear, and head (near the ear). She also still has the vibrations and tapping, pounding, and bouncing sensations.

Buhner recommends getting entire protocols going at low doses to take advantage of the synergy of the herbs (they enhance the actions of each other).

Basically, you just pick an herb you think will provide the most benefit and start it at 1 drop per day. Wait 4-7 days to gauge response and then add another drop per day. Wait and go up to 3 x daily dosing.

Do the same with all the herbs you want to get started.....and then slowly increase each of them in the same manner.

Please understand that treating these infections is a marathon, not a sprint. It could very well be a few months before any improvements become evident. If they happen sooner, great. It's really an up and down, backwards and around type of process. We'll take any good we can get.

Herxing might happen and it's always good to increase detoxing before starting something new and maintain that increased level of detoxing.

I hate vibrations. I developed them when on abx and they disappeared after awhile. I dealt with them again as herxes on the full Cowden protocol and then yet again as herxes on Buhner's full Lyme, Babs and Bart protocols.

Healing my nerves has been quite the process for me.

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Please don't ever feel discouraged about increasing herbs slowly. They can still be quite effective at low doses.

I was able to transition from the full Cowden protocol to Buhner's Lyme protocol rather easily....probably because there were similarities with the herbs and I had been treating Lyme for almost one year at that point.

The concurrent transition to Buhner's Babs and Bart protocols took longer - especially with the Babs herbs since I never treated for Babs and obviously have it or a Bab-like infection.

I started all 3 protocols in August of last year and was only up to 8 drops each of the Babs/Bart herbs in early December.....earlier attempts at increasing resulted in herxing that impacted my life too much.

Almost miraculously, I was able to increase from that point forward and got up to the 1/4 - 1/2 tsp 3x daily doses of the Babs/Bart herbs by mid-December.

Even with that slower start, I experienced improvements.

I was at 90% when I went off abx and that 90% was maintained after almost 6 months on the full Cowden protocol and a lot of herxing.

Low doses of Buhner's Babs and Bart protocols along with full doses of his Lyme protocol brought me to 98% in just 4 months.

Slow and steady wins the marathon.