Fatigue means the low energy that can not restore from rest and comes commonly with insomnia and depression. Fatigue is psychological tiredness. The fatigue has 3 main causes: insomnia, depression and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
Insomnia
Insomnia is a very common medical problem. Usually the consistent insomnia has not clear causes. It happened due to the internal medical disorders, and affects each other then. Finally the body health is in the total mess of bad circle.
Many persons misunderstood it and thought only difficultly falling to sleep is insomnia. Factually insomnia refers to “any sleeping without restoring”. So non-restoring sleeping is bad sleeping, insomnia. It may involve poor quality (difficult falling, interrupted process, shallow or dreaming model) or/and short quantity.
What is restoring sleeping? Function of sleeping is restoring body, like restarting or resetting the computer. After daily activities, the body is tired with much waste or garbage accumulated. The effective or good sleeping can recover and regulate the body and make it “refresh”, which lets you feel: more energy, less stress, relaxing mood etc. due to “lubricated and cleaned organs’ functions.
Harms of Insomnia include the overall medical diseases: chronic fatigue, emotion issues, hypertension, diabetic, mal-digestion, IBS, male and female problems, cancers, autoimmune diseases etc. Almost all medical problems link to insomnia (created or worsen by it). Many diseases got tremendous healing after insomnia got improved: refractory hypertension or diabetic, uncontrolled depression or anxiety, ineffective infertility, complicated skin problems…… The body is entity. Sleeping will affect the whole body and cause extensive and complicated medical problems. If there is insomnia, good health is not possible!
Depression
Depression refers to sad mood for more than 2 weeks. It is worldly in many persons and its causes include congenital link, tense relationship / status, severe medical problems, or mostly unknown (as major depressive disorder).
Harms of Depression present loss of interest / motivation, insomnia, fatigue, digestion problem, food craving, poor circulation, sex disorder, food craving or poor appetite, abnormal circle/period, overweight, and so on. This problem can ruin whole body, and the serious case will go to suicide. The patients with depression is not possible to work and live well.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a medical disorder that persistent fatigue lasts more than 6 months and can not be relieved by rest. The cause of CFS is unknown. It is also called “myalgic encephalomyelitis”.
Harms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome involve non-coverable fatigue, insomnia, memory loss, sex disorder, body muscle or joint pain, headache, cold feeling, sore throat or lymph nodes. Life is completely crushed. Usually the patients lose the all abilities.
These three problems have the close relationship. They may be in the circle “remission and relapse” and usually get worse and worse without the effective treatment.
Western Medicine treats these problems commonly for symptoms, like sleeping pill, pain medicine, digestion medicine, and anti-depressant. These medicines have the side effects like addiction, kidney damage, low libido or overweight.
Chinese medicine (acupuncture and Chinese herb) has been helping a lot of these patients in Wen Acupuncture & Fatigue Clinic. The huge successful results (more than 95%) were seen in the patients who had insomnia, depression and chronic fatigue. These persons got best improvement in the multiple medical systems like digestion, circulation, endocrine, nerve and psych. They went back to the normal life quality. Many patients had the subsequent steady weight loss (20 to 80 pounds). Such treatment does not have the obvious side effects and show good endurance (lasting long time or being cured).