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Amy Cain
Hello all! I am a new student, and hoping this is the appropriate place to go with this question. I started this journey not only for my love of plants and natural healing, but also because I have found myself in the midst of some sort of inflammatory autoimmune situation that the medical professionals cannot give a label to. I am wanting to start using herbs as a way to deal with this, hence my starting the course to learn and hopefully help myself. I finished the course on dosing, in there Doc says for chronic cases a month of treatment per year a person has had the condition. So I got some tinctures, but am trying to figure out how much, and length of time to take it to start with. Direct me appropriately if this is not the place and I appreciate any and all help. Thank you so much.
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Michelle Koch
Hi there, and welcome! Doc does have a page somewhere that lists dosing suggestions (I’ve been living off-grid in the wilderness for the past five months, so I need to re-acquaint myself with where all the information is). Anyway, I personally start with 1/2 teaspoon, twice a day for chronic, long-term use. If more is needed, increase, but don’t exceed a full teaspoon. Doc recommends taking a break one day a week, “to help your body stay excited about taking herbs.” If it is for a chronic condition with no cure, then you may need to continue your protocol forever, in order to mitigate your condition effectively. (For example, people with chronic skin rashes find they need to apply their special lotions daily, and notice an increase in flare-ups if they skip a day). As for the statement about long-term conditions needing one month per year of illness, I found that to be spot-on, in my particular case.
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Michelle, thank you so much for the reply and information! It is greatly appreciated! I will see if I can find the lists on dosing you mentioned on here!
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Tammy Kidney
Hi, Amy.
I have had a long journey with inflammatory autoimmune disease, which presented as chronic, widespread tendonitis and eventually high blood pressure and hair loss. In the last year I have been successful in being able to discontinue my allopathic medicine (with care/consult from a naturalpathic doctor), avoid needing to use any of my braces, and I lost 15 pounds. Because everyone is different, I will just say this is what worked for me: 1) I drink 2 or 3 cups of immune system supporting herbal tea daily. 2) Removed GMOs/bioengineered foods completely from my diet 3) I drink 1/2 my body weight in ounces of water & herbal tea (so for me, I weigh 140 pounds, therefore my goal is to drink 70 ounces of water/tea per day). 4) I minimize my gluten (eliminating it has been a struggle for me) and when I do eat gluten, it’s usually sourdough bread or at someone else’s house! 5) I take supplements targeted toward my body’s specific deficencies (I had a nutritive evaluation done in February) 6) I minimized sugar (much of which happened naturally when I removed GMOs and started drinking copious amounts of water) and 7) I chose higher quality foods: whole fresh, in-season, or frozen fruits & vegetables, bone broths, wild caught fish (no more farm raised salmon), grass fed meats, eggs from our free ranged chickens & vegetables we grow, raw milk from a local farm where the cows are on pasture, etc.
I hope this gives you some encouragement and some ideas to help you on your journey to health & healing!
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Elizabeth Prackert
Hi Tammy, can I ask what teas have you found that help you? I have hasimotos thyroiditis which is the autoimmune version of underactive thyroid disease. I have been taking astragalus capsules for years and thankfully that herb doesn’t irritate the thyroid.Great Post.
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Hi, Elizabeth. My husband has Hashimoto’s disease as well. A tea that we both enjoy most nights is one his aunt first mixed up for us: 2 parts each stinging nettle, oat straw, red clover, and calendula and 1 part spearmint. The nettle is a strong nutritive and is high in calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, and silica. So is oat straw. Stinging nettle also has some anti-inflammatory properties. The red clover is suppose to be a lymph mover and is also high in calcium. Calendula is in it because it also improves lymph movement and is an anti-inflammatory. (It also makes the tea pretty.) Spearmint has anti-inflammatory properties and tastes good. I only use one part spearmint, because I don’t want the taste to be too strong. The other tea I drink almost daily is hibiscus. It is known to be helpful in reducing blood pressure and supporting the liver. I drink about 3-4 cups of iced hibiscus tea a day, except Sundays.
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Tammy, thank you so much for your reply and information. I have also struggled with some sort of inflammatory issues, which present most times in the tendons. I have gone a more natural route after going to rheumatologists and the answer there was we don’t know but here take these medications. So after being raised by a Chiropractor I wanted to try and approach this with a more natural method. I started with an elimination diet, and am now taking some of Doc’s herbs. It is tolerable at this stage, but your suggestions and help give me more to try and honestly its nice to hear from others who are on the same journey. So thank you again so much.
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Hi, Amy. I’m taking a sequential approach to this course, and am looking forward to starting the lessons on the immune system soon. I’m sure we’ll both learn a lot!
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Dr. Patrick Jones
Hi Amy,
Have a look here for autoimmune lessons.
Immune System & Lymphatics III: Allergies, Autoimmune Disease & Leaky Gut
Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.
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Thank you so much for the link Doc!!! Really enjoying the school and learning a ton!
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