Herxheimer Reactions/Pulsed Doses of Herbs

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I've spent a few weeks on the Buhner herb protocol and the two times I've

increase my dosage of Japanese Knotweed (right now at 2 tablets of Source

Naturals 3x/day), I get heavy headaches (which, thankfully, are unusual for me)

and a worsening of my symptoms. I'm generally thrilled with that, since I think

that's a herx reaction. However, in order to give my body the ability to

accomdate the reaction, I stop the herbs for one dose that day. I would love

anyone's thoughts on whether skipping a dose to relieve some of the stress on

the body is something others have tried to keep the balance between killing the

disease and managing toxicity.

Also, has anyone tried " pulsing " the doses of herbs, taking more at one dosage,

and then skipping a dose, or taking more on one day and skipping the next?