Hi
I dont see any harm in taking the tinctures for a long time. The real problem that you have it sounds like the liver is having trouble in re using/cleaning the red blood cells. which is a basic liver function -- but needs to be done. drs. do measure that in blood tests.
mine is a bit raised at "19" the safe number is anything less that "17". dont entirely know how they measure it, but one the temp Drs. told me this a couple of months back as part of a blood test I had done.
This is a seriuos enough issue but long as you do keep doing the cleanses I think you will get a lot better but it takes so much time. Dr.S said that he has had poeple taking echinacea for a year and more and they have not suffered at all.There are no problems taking tinctures for long periods.I am still trying to get well after 7 years of taking the stuff.But I have had 1 1/2 years in remission in the middle.
Schulzes tinctures are the strongest on the market, no one else comes close when you are really ill.There are 2 other poeple on curezone that I have read would agree 'Discoman' and 'raider'.
CFS/ME are the same thing just that some poeple call it by a different name. (Some will argue that they are not the same symptom wise)
Tiggs