Dear Stephen,
I am ordering my herbs from Mayway. They have the whole herb in 1 pound lot or they have a concentrated form that has been cooked and then powdered in 5.3 oz. bottles. These can be ordered capped, the whole herb cannot. The concentrated herb is 5:1. From what I understand it is 5 times stronger than the whole herb. Which should I use. How do I know how many milligrams I am getting in a “00” cap of either one?
I am ordering my herbs from Mayway. They have the whole herb in 1 pound lot or they have a concentrated form that has been cooked and then powdered in 5.3 oz. bottles. These can be ordered capped, the whole herb cannot. The concentrated herb is 5:1. From what I understand it is 5 times stronger than the whole herb. Which should I use. How do I know how many milligrams I am getting in a “00” cap of either one?
Stephen’s response:
Well, I don’t know how many milligrams you are getting in either one. In reality, my preference is for people with lyme to take up to 1 cup of the powdered organic or wild Japanese knotweed root per day (usually split into 3 or 4 doses blended into water or juice over the course of the day). But many people with lyme deal better with encapsulated herbs (and when I wrote the book the powdered root was not easily available) and so that is what I recommended. You can certainly try the 5:1 formulation and I would just begin with one capsule 3 times daily and see how you respond.
Well, I don’t know how many milligrams you are getting in either one. In reality, my preference is for people with lyme to take up to 1 cup of the powdered organic or wild Japanese knotweed root per day (usually split into 3 or 4 doses blended into water or juice over the course of the day). But many people with lyme deal better with encapsulated herbs (and when I wrote the book the powdered root was not easily available) and so that is what I recommended. You can certainly try the 5:1 formulation and I would just begin with one capsule 3 times daily and see how you respond.
Stephen
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