Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome is accompanied by characteristic symptoms lasting at least 6 months. These symptoms include:

• self-reported impairment in short-term memory or concentration severe enough to cause substantial reduction in previous levels of occupational, educational, social, or personal activities

• sore throat that's frequent or recurring

• tender cervical (neck) or axillary (armpit) lymph nodes

• muscle pain

• multi-joint pain without swelling or redness

• headaches of a new type, pattern, or severity

• unrefreshing sleep and

• post-exertional malaise (extreme, prolonged exhaustion and sickness following physical or mental activity) lasting more than 24 hours.

A clinician should consider a diagnosis of CFS if those two criteria are met. However, many CFS patients may experience other symptoms, including irritable bowel, depression or psychological problems, chills and night sweats, visual disturbances, allergies or sensitivities to foods, odors, chemicals, medications, or noise, brain fog, difficulty maintaining upright position, dizziness, balance problems or faintness.

Cause:

In western Medicine, the cause or causes of CFS remain unknown. I have many patients come for CFS without finding any results of medical test.

But in Chinese medicine, it is considered as imbalanced body. For example(based on Chinese medicine theory):

• Disharmony between liver and spleen: bloated stomach, emotional,stressed, irregular period, diarrhea or constipation, insomnia, poor appetite etc.

• Invisible phlegm in body: lassitude, heaviness in head, profuse sleep, sluggish or loose bowel motion, poor appetite, profuse sputum etc.

• Spleen deficiency: fatigue, dizziness, low energy, sore in muscles and joints, scanty menstruation or menopause etc.

There are more reasons causing CFS.

Treatment:

With Chinese medicine treatment, results are extraordinary. We have patients get rid of the CFS within a few treatments.

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