i take 6ml of tincture 4x a day - so 24ml per day total of 1:5 70% alcohol tincture

this is still below the recommended dose by Buhner - which is 30ml of tincture or 30g or root powder

you could make tea - and this is the way most Chinese herbs are taken historically

the issue with JK in Lyme - is the dose - as per above - its a lot

tea is generally made with 2-4g of dry herb per cup - so you would be drinking 10 cups of tea a day
not impossible - but not easy

before i switched to tincture - i used ground root powder and mixed it with water and a little olive oil to make an easy to handle paste - like soft putty - and then made this into 3 daily portions that could easily be swallowed

dose was around 25g of dry powder per day

i found i could mix a few days worth at a time - ad it would keep in the fridge for a few days -
this was the way i took it for several years

i prefer the tincture for its slightly better effects - and less expensive overall - but it is a bit more trouble to make