Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis – ME), is a disorder characterized by unexplained profound fatigue that is worsened by exertion.
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Fatigue is the end point of all diseases. As pathological process progress, the person gradually loses energy. Restorative mechanisms of sleep, digestion, proper breathing, exercise and joyful experience become disturbed, limiting the person’s ability to recover.
Numerous mechanisms and molecules have been implicated that lead to abnormalities in immune dysfunction, hormonal regulation, metabolism and response to oxidative stress to include impaired natural killer cell function and/or T-cell function, elevated cytokines, and autoantibodies (rheumatic factor, antithyroid antibodies, antigliadin, anti–smooth muscle antibodies, and cold agglutinins). Infections have been suspected; however, no causal role has been established.
The fatigue is accompanied by cognitive dysfunction and impairment of daily functioning that persists for more than 6 months.
Diagnosing
There is not a specific test for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis – ME), doctor have to find out the root cause of patient’s fatigue and treat that root disease, said Dr Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS.
Allopathic Treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome
Allopathic treatment is largely just supportive and focuses on symptom relief only. The graded exercise therapy effectively improved measures of fatigue and physical functioning. (However, it doesn’t help’s patient in many trails).
In allopathic medicines, fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome has no any cure, its symptoms can persist for years, and its clinical course is punctuated by remissions and relapses.
Longer duration of illness, severe fatigue, comorbid depression, and anxiety are factors associated with a poorer prognosis.
Here are some allopathic drugs to relive the symptoms:
- Benzodiazepines.
- Sedative-hypnotics.
- Antipsychotics.
- Beta-blockers.
- Antihistamines (Over the counter (OTC) drugs).
- Bone marrow.
- Chemotherapy.
Homeopathic Treatment for Chronic fatigue syndrome
To find out what’s causing patient’s fatigue, doctor should ask questions about lifestyle and medications, conduct a physical examination, order some lab tests to check certain levels in patient’s blood and urine tests including pregnancy test.
To relieve fatigue, the doctor should prescribe medicines for the condition or disorder that’s causing fatigue. If you’re advising allopathic drugs, talk to your patient about the risks and side effects of medication.
In different repertories, there are more than 800 medicines for fatigue under the various rubrics for weakness. Here are top-grade Homeopathic medicines for fatigue proven best in my practice said Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS:
Acidium Sarcolactinum
Sarcolacticum Acidium is the one of the best Homeopathic medicines for Fatigue patients. Fatigue in morning time. Morning sickness – Patient wake up feeling exhausted in the morning and the fatigue continues throughout the day. Whole body feels powerless, tired feeling, muscles weakness, muscular prostration, worse any exertion. Spinal neurasthenia, muscular weakness, dyspnea with myocardial weakness. Complains of tiredness and weariness from doing simple activities. Tired feeling in back and neck and shoulders. Paralytic weakness. Wrist tires easily from writing. Extreme weakness from climbing stairs. Stiffness of thigh and calves. Arms feel as if no strength in them. Cramp in the calves. Sleepless nights.
Zincum Metallicum
The proving picture cerebral depression. The word “fag” covers a large part of zinc action. Tissues are worn out faster than they are repaired. Period of depression in disease. Marked anemia with profound prostration. Very sensitive to noise. Averse to work, to talk. Morning sickness, inclination to yawn. Unconquerable drowsiness.
Kalium Phosphoricum
One of the greatest nerve medicines. Prostration, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression. Weak and tired. Especially adapted to the young. Marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system. Slightest mental or physical exertion leads to extreme fatigue. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Even a little work seems like a Herculean task. The person feels worn out with no energy. Insomnia and restless sleep. Weak memory, forgetfulness and impaired memory.
Stressed mind, worries, sadness and depression. Tiredness. Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy. Indisposition to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous, starts easily, irritable. Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Loss of memory. Slightest labor seems a heavy task. Great despondency about business. Shyness; disinclined to converse.
Acid Phosphoricum
Mental and physical debility, drowsy, depressed, apathetic, indifferent state of mind to all things. Indifference; prostrated and stupefied with grief. The legs tremble in walking and the limbs are as difficult to control as the thoughts. Debility and weakness. Insomnia. Restlessness and precipitation.
Conium Maculatum
Cramps and cramp-like pains in different parts. Pain, as from fatigue in the limbs and joints, while at rest. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Nocturnal pains and sufferings, which disturb sleep. Sexual excesses are also noted here. Depressed state of mind with an aversion to do any work and a desire for loneliness also are marked symptoms. Attacks of hysteria and hypochondriasis. Shocks in the tendons, trembling and convulsive shakings in the limbs. Sensation of fatigue esp. early in the morning in bed. Restlessness in the body, esp. in the legs. Want of energy, and nervous debility. Consumption. Sudden sinking, while walking. Great fatigue and other sufferings, from walking in the open.
Acid Picricum
Pulse slow, small, very feeble. Great weakness, compelling to lie down; limbs hardly able to stir themselves; no anxiety, profound calm. Chronic fatigue syndrome, mental and bodily; by least exertion fatigue going into actual paralysis; brain fatigue, nerve fatigue at the same time absence of anxiety-indifference, breaking down-lose appetite-sleep lightly and lie awake, weakness of back and legs; soreness of muscles and joints. Fatigue in professional neuroses. Desire to be alone. Irritable. Low spirits. Indifference, lack of will power to undertake anything. Disinclination for mental or physical work, aversion to talking or movement, with headache. Mental prostration after reading a little; after writing a little.
Kola or Sterculia
Chronic fatigue syndrome due to any cause. This remedy gives power to sustain prolonged physical exertion without taking food and without taking food and without the feeling of fatigue. Neurasthenia. Regulates the circulation, is tonic and anti-diarrheic, regulates cardiac rhythm and acts diuretically. Weak heart. Drinking habit. Asthma. Gives power to endure prolonged physical exertion without taking food and without feeling fatigued.
Arsenicum Album
Arsenic is the medicine for the effects of feats of prolonged endurance. The Arsenic habit of the Styrian mountaineers has arisen from the discovery of its power of strengthening the muscles both of the limbs and of the breathing apparatus. Restlessness. Extreme tiredness. Lying down all the time due to excessive fatigue. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Even a little exertion leads to utmost lack of strength and weakness. Standing, walking and the slightest exertion result in fatigue. Hesitate to do anything due to fear of exertion because they anticipate exhaustion. Extreme anxiety, irritability, desperately angry; almost furious. Despair, hopelessness, unutterable misery.
Murex Purpurea
Murex is a specific medicine for nervous, lively and affectionate women. Greatly fatigue, weak and run down. The sinking, all-gone sensation. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Fatigue re- appears on sitting down. Depression of spirits, a sort of deep hypochondriacal state. Must lie down from weakness, but lying down increases all symptoms. Great fatigue: for several days symptoms more violent when seated than when walking; they cease while walking and reappear on sitting down.
Onosmodium
Want of power of concentration or co-ordination produced by the drug. This appears in inability to concentrate thought; to focus eyes; to co-ordinate muscles; to judge the height of impedimenta on stepping. It also appears in vertigo and sensations of numbness and general muscular prostration. Neuralgic pains. Chronic fatigue syndrome patients who have head or vision complaints along with exhaustion. Blurring of vision, or straining and weakness of eyes. Heaviness or pain in head, feels like drunk; can’t remember anything, can’t concentrate on simple tasks. Nocturnal pains in lower extremities, lumbago. Muscular prostration. Along with head or eye complaints, the foremost symptom of extreme weariness and tiredness is always present.
Panax quinquefolium or Ginseng
Ginseng is a specific remedy for general fatigue. bruised pains in small of back and thighs (on rising from bed), and great languor, with paralytic feelings. Fatigue. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Yawning, and drowsiness with headache. Thinking difficult. Memory weak. Disposition to weep; anxious about the future. Vertigo, cloudiness, confusion, giddiness, and heaviness of the head. Vertigo, forgetfulness. Coldness, trembling, and numbness of the hands, with deadness of the fingers.
Anacardium Orientale
Mentally tired like students and thinkers, neurasthenics. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Mental fatigue from higher studies. Fatigue of literary persons, irresistible desire to swear and curse. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence. Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language.
Coffea Cruda
Insomnia. All time lot of thoughts and ideas that keeps a person awake. Restless sleep and frequent waking from sleep. Exalted mental activities. Body and mind excessively sensitive. Patients look exhausted, retire to dark places, close their eyes to avoid light; remain seated for long times or stretched on a bed. The least noise or motion excites the pain. They avoid talking, being talked to, or hearing others talk. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Over-sensitiveness; weeping mood. Anguish; cannot be composed; is not able to hold the pen; trembles. Sentimental ecstasy; excited imagination; increased power to think. Excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles.
Gelsemium
Weakness and dizziness but sleepiness throughout the day. Muscle weakness and pain, mostly in neck, shoulders, back, hips and legs, general state of paresis, mental and bodily (mental prostration), muscular system – relaxed; the limbs feel so heavy he can hardly move them. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Trembling and weakness in limbs. Dullness of mind and poor concentration.
Selenium
Chronic Fatigue from extreme prostration, sexual indulgence. Weakness; a weakness involving all parts of the body; easy fatigue from any labor, night-watching, mental exertion, debility and sluggishness. Debility after fevers. Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep; strength leaves him suddenly, especially in hot weather.
Tuberculinum
Fatigue, almost total insomnia, and great debility. Here motion causes intense fatigue, aversion to work, wants to constant change. Hands trembling. Forgetful. Aversion to all types of works/labor, especially mental work. Sensibility to music. Does not like to be disturbed by people; trembling of hands. Chronic fatigue syndrome.
Argentum Metallicum
Hysterical pain in all the cartilages, and hence all joints and bones, with tearing and bruised pains, tenderness and weakness. Fatigue. Pressure, cramp-like, pulling, principally in the limbs and in the bones. Bruising pain in sacrum and the joints of the lower limbs and in the joints. Sensation of soreness in the joints. Strong effects on the secretions of the mucous membranes.
Nux Vomica
Convulsions with consciousness. Spasms with tetanic rigidity of nearly all the muscles of the body. Chronic fatigue syndrome. The irritability and excessive sensitiveness in patient’s nature. Dizziness of the mind, unsteady, wavering condition. Incontrollable irritability, and lamentations, complaints and cries. Attacks of convulsions, cramps, tetanus, and other spasms, sometimes with cries, throwing back of head, trembling of limbs, involuntary evacuation of feces and emission of urine, vomiting, profuse sweat, thirst, anxiety, weakness, and trembling of limbs, transient heat and paleness and rattling respiration.
Baptisia Tinctoria
Stupor; falls asleep while being spoken to or answering; heavy sleep till aroused; awakes only to again, fall asleep in the midst of his answer, which he vainly endeavors to finish. Fatigue. Vertigo, and weak feeling of entire system, esp. lower limbs and knees. Great languor; wants to lie down. Tired, bruised, sick feeling in all parts of the body. Weak and tremulous, as if recovering from a severe illness. Great weakness in all four limbs. Numbness prickling and paralytic feeling over the whole body.
COCA
Melancholy. Hypochondriasis. Mental depression with drowsiness. Bashfulness. Prefers solitude and darkness. Muddled feeling in brain. Loss of energy. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Great mental excitement. Vertigo and fainting. Headache just over eyebrows; not constant.
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